Austin Grossman Quotes

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

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.

The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th president and became a Republican.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

Richard Nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of Lincoln that he hung over his bed. Nixon also justified what would later be seen as abuses of power by comparing America in the Vietnam era to the country during the Civil War.

I'd have to say that Nixon feels like the public figure who most dominated my life - from the time I went to fourth grade wearing a Nixon-Lodge button in the fall of 1960, through my college years, which overlapped with Kent State, Cambodia, the China trip and all the rest.

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

I can't stand that Richard Nixon fellow.

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

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

I don't think Donald Trump is Ronald Reagan.

My father was an ex-Marine Goldwater Republican.

As a European from a different, younger generation, the trauma that was Nixon's presidency never really had a hold over me. For one thing, I never voted for him.

The roots of Nixon's political descent lay at least as far back as May 1970, when the shooting of four young Americans at Kent State University began to turn the president's moderate supporters against him.

Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?

I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.