Walter Lippmann Quotes

Our representatives are betrayers of the people.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

That could have been a very successful Presidency had President Nixon really believed in our system.

I wouldn't trust [Richard] Nixon from here to that phone.

If he had an affair while in office I misjudged him. I thought he was just doing that to the country.

[Huey Long is] suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Emperor Long has an intellect.

[Describing member of Congress:] 80 percent were hypocrites. 80 percent, liars. 80 percent, serious sinners.... There is always boozing and floozing.

If I’ve done nothing else for the country, I’ve saved them from Dick Nixon.

… a lying crook in the Presidency

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

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

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

Damn the President! He is a cold-blooded, narrow-minded, prejudiced, obstinate, timid old psalm-singing Indianapolis politician

I can't stand that Richard Nixon fellow.

He [Richard M. Nixon] told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Richard Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Gerald Ford as his revenge.

The presidency of the United States was an office neither to be sought nor declined. To pay money for securing it directly or indirectly, was in my opinion incorrect in principle.

Bill Clinton is the most corrupt, the most amoral, the most despicable person I've ever seen in the presidency.

[Referring to Richard Nixon:] There are frightening implications for the future of our country if we do not impeach the President of the United States ... If we fail to impeach, we have condoned and left unpunished a course of conduct totally inconsistent with reasonable expectations of the American people.

Was any government through its chief magistrate ever more vilely prostituted?

And I think after the history of this first term is written and you look back, you're going to see that compared to other administrations or by any other standard you'd want to apply, that it has been an extraordinarily clean, corruption-free administration because the President [Nixon] insists on that.