Harry Shearer Quotes

I can't stand that Richard Nixon fellow.

Compared to Nixon.

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

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

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

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.

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.

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

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

Nixonphobia

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

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

Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.

I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

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

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

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

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.

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

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

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

The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

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

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.