All Quotes

Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories. His face is so cartoony that he's become this cartoon figure. I never really related to the romanticization of J.F.K., and I knew too much about Reagan to idealize him. Nixon falls in between.
‐‐ Austin Grossman

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
‐‐ Adlai Stevenson

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.
‐‐ Roger Morris

Nixon probably was a nice guy.
‐‐ Bill Ayers

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.
‐‐ Bob Woodward

Nixon's deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could periodically taunt him.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
‐‐ Conrad Black

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
‐‐ Bob Woodward

Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.
‐‐ Stewart Udall

Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
‐‐ Earl Butz

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
‐‐ Barry Goldwater

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.
‐‐ David Halberstam

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.
‐‐ Al D'Amato

No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together.
‐‐ Frank Robinson

No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
‐‐ Naomi Scott

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.
‐‐ Michael Moore

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
‐‐ Calvin Klein

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
‐‐ Octavia Butler

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
‐‐ Milan Kundera

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
‐‐ Aesop

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.
‐‐ Ken Stott

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.
‐‐ Richard Hammond

No action is without its side effects.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
‐‐ Katie McGrath

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.
‐‐ Maureen Reagan

No actor in the world started off at the top.
‐‐ Daniela Ruah

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

No actor wants to play someone else's performance.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

No actor wants to play to an empty house.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen