History Quotes / RichardNixon

->I was not lying. I said things [[NoExceptYes that later on seemed to be untrue.]]

->The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of [[PsychopathicManchild political adolescents]] to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

->I always thought people were terribly unfair to call him "Tricky Dick." Now, I don't know.
-->-- '''William Warren Scranton''', Governor of Pennsylvania [[note]]The context of this quote is the 1964 presidential election, where Scranton, Barry Goldwater and other candidates were locked in a bitter fight for the Republican nomination. Nixon promised various candidates his backing at different times... then, when the convention seemed deadlocked, he proposed ''himself'' as a compromise candidate. Perhaps for this reason, Scranton turned down Nixon's offer to become Secretary of State four years later.[[/note]]

-->-- '''George Romney'''

-->-- Nixon [[SoreLoser takes his ball and goes home]], California gubernatorial concession speech (1962)

->Our teachers, preachers, and politicians have gone too far in advocating the idea that each individual should determine [[{{Hypocrite}} what laws are good and what laws are bad, and that he then should obey the law he likes and disobey the law he dislikes.]]

->You look a man in the eye and you know he's got it--brains. [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter This guy has got it.]] If he doesn't, Nixon has made a bum choice.

->There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have [[RacistGrandpa a black and a white]]. [[AndTheRest Or a rape.]]
-->-- Transcripts from 1972

->(to Kennedy's portrait) When they [the American people] look at you, [[TheAce they see what they want to be]]. When they look at me, [[ThisLoserIsYou they see what they are]].

->He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time... He was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
-->-- '''[[Creator/HunterSThompson Hunter S. Thompson]]''', ''He Was a Crook''

->Told the Supreme Court, "Fuck you, I'm the president." Their response: "Nice try — [[RealityEnsues smell the glove, motherfucker.]]"
-->--'''''Wiki/RationalWiki'''''

->Not even Richard Nixon felt comfortable around Richard Nixon.
-->-- '''{{Website/Cracked}}'''

->[[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/a/ad/Battery_Nixons.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070117130552 Pictured:]] the world's population when free of Nixon's enemies.
-->--'''''{{Website/Uncyclopedia}}'''''

->I played by [[InherentInTheSystem the rules of politics as I found them.]]

->The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of [[PointyHairedBoss political adolescents]] to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

->Whatever Nixon's impulses to engage in political combat, which had been so much a part of his public career and reflected his true instincts, [[PragmaticVillainy he understood that Americans wanted their president to shun polemics as much as possible and unify rather than divide the country.]] Nixon was overwhelmingly self-interested, but he was [[VillainWithGoodPublicity someone who shrewdly presented himself as a wise president always putting the larger national interest ahead of self-serving ends.

-->-- Robert Dallek, ''Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power''

-->-- '''JonathanCoulton''', "The Presidents"

->Our teachers, preachers, and politicians have gone too far in advocating the idea that each individual should determine [[HypocriticalHumor what laws are good and what laws are bad, and that he then should obey the law he likes and disobey the law he dislikes.]]

He says 'don't worry[='=]"''
-->-- '''Curtis Mayfield''', "If There's Hell Below, We're All Going to Go"

-> ''Educated fools''\\
''From uneducated schools''\\
''Pimping people is the rule''\\
''Polluted water in the pool''\\
''And Nixon talking about don't worry''\\
''He says don't worry (repeat three)''\\
''But they don't know''\\
''There can be no show''\\
''And if there's a hell below''\\
''We're all gonna go''
-->-- '''Music/CurtisMayfield'''s "(Don't Worry) If there's a Hell bellow we are all gonna go"

-->-- ''Music/CurtisMayfield'''s "(Don't Worry) If there's a Hell bellow we are all gonna go"

-->-- '''DavidBowie''', "Young Americans"

-->-- [[The Simpsons Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV]]

-->-- [[TheSimpsons Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV]]

'''Nixon:''' Yes, Master\\

-->-- '''William Warren Scranton''', Governor of Pennsylvania [[note]]The context of this quote is the 1964 presidential election, where Scranton, Barry Goldwater and other candidates were locked in a bitter fight for the Republican nomination. Nixon promised various candidates his backing at different times... then, when the convention seemed deadlocked, he proposed ''himself'' as a compromise candidate. It didn't work that year, but Nixon had better luck four years later.[[/note]]

-->-- '''William Warren Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania''' [[note]]The context of this quote is the 1964 presidential election, where Scranton, Barry Goldwater and other candidates were locked in a bitter fight for the Republican nomination. Nixon promised various candidates his backing at different times... then, when the convention seemed deadlocked, he proposed ''himself'' as a compromise candidate. It didn't work that year, but Nixon had better luck four years later.[[/note]]