Stewart Alsop Quotes

Great care has gone into the construction of the shadow which declares itself to be Richard Nixon.

Compared to Nixon.

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

I can't stand that Richard Nixon fellow.

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

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

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

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 White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress.

I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.

We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.

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

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.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

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

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

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

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

The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.