Pierre Andre Rinfret Quotes

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

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.

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

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

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

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

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.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

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

As I watched some of the Watergate hearings I kept asking myself what all these people—[John] Dean and others—were doing there in the first place. Was there really an honest job that needed doing?

007 [The congressman had been #7 on the famous "enemies list" of Richard M. Nixon

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.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.