Richard Nixon/Quotes

You won't have Nixon to kick around any more.

—Nixon in 1962

People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm NOT a crook.

—Nixon in 1973

Nixon's the One

—Nixon's campaign motto, later used by critics for ironic purposes

Do you remember
Your President Nixon?
Do you remember
The bills you have to pay

For even yesterday?!

—David Bowie, "Young Americans"

Nixon was a sweating, filthy liar...

—Jonathan Coulton, "The Presidents"

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time... He was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

—Hunter S. Thompson

Can you imagine what this man would have been if someone loved him?

—Henry Kissinger

How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic president, so brilliant and so morally lacking?

—Historian James MacGregor Burns

The love of Richard Nixon
Death without assassination
The love of Richard Nixon
Yeah they all betrayed you
People forget China
And your war on cancer
Yeah they all betrayed you

Yeah and your country too

—Manic Street Preachers, "The Love of Richard Nixon"

Oh here's to the land you've torn out the heart of.

Richard Nixon, find yourself another country to be part of.

—Phil Ochs, "Here's To the State of Richard Nixon"

Who's kicking who around now?!

—Giant cyborg Nixon, Futurama

River Song: Richard Milhous Nixon. Vietnam, Watergate...there's some good stuff too.
The Doctor: Not enough.
Song (mildly surprised): Hippie!

The Doctor (contemptuously): Archaeologist.

—Doctor Who, "The Impossible Astronaut"

We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you'll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you


But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views

You haven't done nothin'.

—Stevie Wonder, "You Haven't Done Nothin'", written about Nixon following his resignation.