Zitat des Tages über Nixon:
The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.
The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
I have tender feelings for Nixon because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually, I didn't like the Watergate trials 'cause they interrupted 'The Munsters.'
The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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.
I would have to say that Richard Nixon is probably the most gifted and skilled political practitioner, in his pre-presidential years, of all of the American presidents in the 20th century.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
Every president since Nixon has embraced a policy of 'self-determination without termination' - the idea that Native Americans are best equipped to govern themselves. Trump is breaking with this position.
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.
Nixon had lists upon lists upon lists. They were tragic lists saying, 'Smile more,' or, 'Be stronger - remember, it is your job to spiritually uplift the nation.' This understanding of his limitations is heartbreaking.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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.
In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
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 revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.
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.
I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.
Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents.
I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should vote for George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I don't have enough time.
Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed.
Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.
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.
I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.
I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
