Bill Mauldin Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I never thought I would see a President of the United States say on television that “I am not a crook.” The worst part of it was, Nixon couldn’t even look the camera in the eye.

He [Richard M. Nixon] really gets my juices flowing every time he sticks his head out of the sewer.

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.

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 thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have served out his presidency if he'd never made them in the first place.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).

This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president.

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.