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.