I don't care what the law is, tell me who the judge is.
I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
When they finally decided to do McCarthy in, Nixon was the fellow they selected, and he was perfectly willing to turn on his conservative friends and cut their throats….Nixon was a superb hatchet man.
For a similar view of Nixon, see Nikita Khrushchev.