"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in." -- Harry S. Truman "The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind."-- Thomas Paine
HOW CAN YOU TELL IF THIS MAN IS LYING?
HIS MOUTH IS MOVING...
Blacks The second point is that coming out--coming back and saying that black Americans aren't as good as black Africans--most of them , basically, are just out of the trees. Now, let's face it, they are. Richard Nixon to Rumsfeld 7-11-1971 White House Tapes Bugs "I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say." Richard Nixon
Creating Jobs Government enterprise is the most inefficient and costly way of producing jobs. Richard Milhous Nixon Source:Memoirs of Richard Nixon Crook "I am not a crook." -- Richard Nixon
Deep Throat Nixon: And he has to go, of course. Because it's now obvious, you see we now have these reports, an interesting thing, I have these reports, Al, I got them directly, you know, from, he was leaking to Time magazine, from their attorney. This was, oh, months ago before I sent Pat Gray's name up. I said, `Pat, I want you to check these leaks.' He said, `Oh, they couldn't be from the bureau.' I said, `Yes they are. Some are.' And I said, `We have on very good authority they're there from Felt.' `Oh, it couldn't be from Felt.' I said, `Dammit ... you ought to give him a lie detector test.' You know, I was very tough. `Oh, we can't do that,' he said. He said, `But I vouch for Felt.' ... I also raised it with [former Atty. Gen. Richard] Kleindienst. Kleindienst vouched for Felt. That shows you how clever Felt is. My point is that this was three, four months ago that we were onto the son of a bitch. We had something, we had a lead and it shows you how important it is that when you and I get leaks like this in the future, we don't disregard them. Richard Nixon Source:White House Tapes, May 12, 1973 Defeated A man is not finished when he is defeated; he's finished when he quits. Richard Nixon Source:Remarks to reporters, Nov 11, 1960 Environment In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs...But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues. President Richard Nixon Alone In the White House, Pg 163 Freedom of Speech "We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world." In 1965, before his election to the White House and 10 years before the last Americans evacuated Saigon and South Vietnam surrendered unconditionally to the communists, Richard M. Nixon said this Source:CNN Funeral Comment "This is a great day for France!" --Richard Nixon, while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral
Gandhi "The Indians are bastards anyway," Kissinger told the president. "They are starting a war there." "While she was a bitch, we got what we wanted too," Kissinger said. "She will not be able to go home and say that the United States didn't give her a warm reception and therefore in despair she's got to go to war." "We really slobbered over the old witch," Nixon told Kissinger Source:White House Tapes, Nov. 5, 1971 Greeks "I don't want to see this country to go that way. You know what happened to the Greeks. Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates." May 26, 1971 White House Tapes Released 3-2002
How You Play I have never had much sympathy for the point of view, "it isn't whether you win or lose that counts, but how you play the game." Richard Nixon Source:Six Crises I Let Down I let down my friends. I let down the country. I let down our system of government and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government, but think that it's all too corrupt. Richard Nixon Source:New York Times May 5th, 1977 Italians They're not like us. They smell different, they look different, they act different. The trouble is, you can't find one that's honest. Richard Nixion to John Ehrlichman Source:White House Tapes Jews and Marijuana "You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists." May 26, 1971 White House Tapes Released 3-2002
Kick Me Please "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." Nixon after losing the election for Governor of California
Legal "When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal" Nixon WH Tapes
Lying "I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue." Richard Nixon, discussing Watergate in 1978
People This would be an easy job if you didn't have to deal with people. President Richard Nixon Alone In the White House Pg 326 Racism What people resent is this business of some colleges pushing the blacks too far for their own good, making them doctors and everything else....The racism has receded, I think, but it's there and it will always be there....A lot of people are just as racist now, but it's not fashionable anymore--and I think that's damned important. You can't talk about blacks like you once did. President Richard Nixon Alone In the White House Pg 110 Reagan "Reagan is not one that wears well. On a personal basis, Rockefeller is a pretty nice guy, Reagan on a personal basis, is terrible. He just isn't pleasant to be around.He's just an uncomfortable man to be around...strange." Richard Nixon, White House Tapes, August 1972 Romans "Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags. . . . You know what happened to the popes? It's all right that popes were laying the nuns." May 26, 1971 Whilte House tapes Released 3-2002
Saint Nixon? "I would have made a good Pope." -- Richard Nixon
Vietnam I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war. Richard Nixon, Oct. 1969 Welfare Reform You have to face the fact that whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to divise a system that reconizes this while not appearing to... President Richard Nixon Alone In the White House Pg 110 Whitewash "There can be no whitewash at the White House." Nixon on Watergate
Winner? "It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody." Richard M. Nixon source:http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog /Richard.Nixon.Quote.4FDE GOP Fan? Want To Bitch? E-mail Me at "Too.bad@biteme.com"
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