Nixon Quotes
Alexander Haig: I'm afraid we have another problem, Mr. President. [He hands him a paper. Nixon glances at it]
Alexander Haig: June 23rd, '72, sir. The part that's underlined. Your instructions to Haldeman regarding the CIA and the FBI.
Richard M. Nixon: So?
Alexander Haig: Your lawyers feel it's the...â?smoking gun.
Richard M. Nixon: It's totally out of context. I was protecting the national security. I never intended...
Alexander Haig: Sir, the deadline is today.
Richard M. Nixon: Can we get around this, Al?
Alexander Haig: It's the Supreme Court, sir. You don't get around it.
Alexander Haig: June 23rd, '72, sir. The part that's underlined. Your instructions to Haldeman regarding the CIA and the FBI.
Richard M. Nixon: So?
Alexander Haig: Your lawyers feel it's the...â?smoking gun.
Richard M. Nixon: It's totally out of context. I was protecting the national security. I never intended...
Alexander Haig: Sir, the deadline is today.
Richard M. Nixon: Can we get around this, Al?
Alexander Haig: It's the Supreme Court, sir. You don't get around it.
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E. Howard Hunt: John, sooner or later, sooner, I think, you're gonna learn a lesson that's been learned by everyone who's ever gotten close to Richard Nixon. That he's the darkness reaching out for the darkness. And eventually, it's either you or him. Your grave's already been dug, John.
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Richard M. Nixon: [on TV] ... because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.
Henry Kissinger: Oh, God, I think I'm going to throw up.
Henry Kissinger: Oh, God, I think I'm going to throw up.
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Richard M. Nixon: They can't impeach me for bombing Cambodia. The president can bomb anybody he likes.
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[President Nixon is making an impromptu nighttime visit to the Lincoln Memorial, where a group of student protestors has camped out]
Richard M. Nixon: Hi, I'm Dick Nixon.
Young Student: You're ****tin' me.
Richard M. Nixon: Where you from?
Young Student: Syracuse.
Richard M. Nixon: The Orangemen! Now there's a football program. Jim Brown. And that other tailback... The one with the blood disease.
Young Student: Ernie Davis.
Richard M. Nixon: Right, right. I used to play a little ball myself at Whittier. [Nixon laughs nervously]
Richard M. Nixon: Of course, they used to use me as a tackling dummy.
Young Woman: We didn't come here to talk about football.
Richard M. Nixon: [chastened] Well, I understand that. Probably most of you think I'm a real SOB. I know that. I understand how you feel, I really do. I want peace, too, but peace with honor.
Young Woman: What does that mean?
Richard M. Nixon: Well, you can't have peace without a price. Sometimes you have to be willing to fight for peace. And sometimes to die.
Young Student: What you have to understand, Mr. Nixon, is that we are willing to die for what we believe in.
Richard M. Nixon: Hi, I'm Dick Nixon.
Young Student: You're ****tin' me.
Richard M. Nixon: Where you from?
Young Student: Syracuse.
Richard M. Nixon: The Orangemen! Now there's a football program. Jim Brown. And that other tailback... The one with the blood disease.
Young Student: Ernie Davis.
Richard M. Nixon: Right, right. I used to play a little ball myself at Whittier. [Nixon laughs nervously]
Richard M. Nixon: Of course, they used to use me as a tackling dummy.
Young Woman: We didn't come here to talk about football.
Richard M. Nixon: [chastened] Well, I understand that. Probably most of you think I'm a real SOB. I know that. I understand how you feel, I really do. I want peace, too, but peace with honor.
Young Woman: What does that mean?
Richard M. Nixon: Well, you can't have peace without a price. Sometimes you have to be willing to fight for peace. And sometimes to die.
Young Student: What you have to understand, Mr. Nixon, is that we are willing to die for what we believe in.
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