S.E. Cupp Quotes

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.

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

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.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Few dramas in American political history remain more riveting than that of Nixon's exit and Mr. Ford's reaction, at first halting and then decisive, to the looming possibility of a former president on criminal trial for months on end.

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.

Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.

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

[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.

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

Had matters gone as planned—and the [Watergate] tapes trickled out posthumously—[Richard] Nixon would have managed the extraordinary feat of committing suicide after his own death.

The searing melodrama of the Watergate investigation exposed new Nixon lies every day.

I grew up during Watergate. I was enamored of the study of that.

Were there hour-by-hour countdowns to the end of the Bush presidency? The end of the Obama years? No, definitely not to this extent. Trump's time in office is ending in ignoble fashion.

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.

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

Compared to 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.

We’ve got to stop this. This is crazy. We’re about to impeach the President of the United States.

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

… a lying crook in the Presidency

No more Nixon jokes. He’s a sick man.

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

… the implicit infallibility of presidents, which has been an accepted thing in America, is badly hurt by this, because it shows that people do things the President wants to do even though it's wrong, and the President can be wrong.