Tip O'Neill Quotes

I can't stand that Richard Nixon fellow.

While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the margin of victory in the 1976 election.

When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon's top aides - H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell.

I’ve studied Nixon since the Kennedy campaign. I’ve no doubt that the trail will lead to the Oval Office.

[Referring to Richard Nixon:] Either impeach him or get off his back.

What did the President know and when did he know it?

Compared to Nixon.

You roll back the stones and you find the slithering things of the world of Richard Nixon.

There were no dead bodies in Watergate.

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.

Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.

We are fortunate in the fact that an amazingly large segment of the population, and even of his own party, seems to dislike and mistrust Nixon instinctively.

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

Nixonphobia

007 [The congressman had been #7 on the famous "enemies list" of Richard M. Nixon

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

I don't believe Richard Nixon ... ever shall be totally exonerated. While it's true he's been pardoned for any Federal crimes he may have committed as President, he can't escape the judgement of history.

I like Ike. But I like his running mate, Nixon, even better.

We can be lied to only so many times. The best thing that he [President Nixon] can do for the country is to get the hell out of the White House and get out this afternoon.

I just knew in my heart that it was not right for Dick Nixon to ever be the President of this country.

[Describing Richard M. Nixon] ... a kamikaze pilot who keeps apologizing for the attack.

I’m not criticizing Richard Nixon except to say that he’s a conservative.

Gerald Ford is one of the relatively few living Americans who not only admires Richard Nixon, but actually likes him.