Quotes tagged ‘Richard Nixon’

“Well, the day that Nixon resigned, I’m told, he had about twenty-five per cent of the country with him. So I think we can assume that there’s at least twenty-five per cent that you’re just not going to reach. That still leaves an awful lot of people.”

— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com

“[last lines] Holden Ford: So what are you teaching? Wendy Carr: Um, I'm teaching a class on the intersection of sociopathy and fame. People like, um, Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison. Their celebrity becomes the only thing they need to sustain their ego. Bill Tench: Nixon was a sociopath. Wendy Carr: Very…”

— Joe Penhall, Ruby Mae Spiegel, Bill Tench, Holt McCallany, imdb.com

“President Richard Nixon once said, 'People react to fear, not love.' Easy for him to say because he was kinda scary and nobody loved him.”

— Vince Calandra, Mike Baxter, Tim Allen, imdb.com

“The only thing your roommates (i.e., enemies) will understand is fear (i.e., psychological warfare (i.e., dirty tricks). It worked for Dick Nixon. For example, get ahold of some goat's blood. Taint that blood. Then when your roommates need blood, give them the tainted goat's blood. It's a perfect pl…”

— Garland Testa, Dale Gribble, Johnny Hardwick, imdb.com

“He’s one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.”

— Harry S Truman, amazon.com

“Donald Trump sees the presidency the same way he sees one of his companies: its whole purpose is to serve him and only him…the whole purpose of the Justice Department, which he thinks is not to uphold law. No, no, no, it's to do the president's bidding. The same way he probably thinks the purpose of…”

— Trevor Noah, en.wikiquote.org

“The fog of war. A back room within a back room....You know, it’s at times like these I wish I was Nixon, had every nook and cranny bugged.”

— Frank Pugliese, Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey, imdb.com

“The Supreme Court is a political instrument composed of malleable political creatures. It's not some august body of intellectuals and cerebral types who are going to maximize fidelity to the Constitution. Today's Court is frightening in its stupidity. Four of the nine justices (Warren Burger, Willia…”

— Al Goldstein, filthy.media

“If I went for the dollar, I would really be a super-rich person who played it safe. The way to make the most money in this country is to deal with sex without touching on politics. Mafia people I knew in the early years of SCREW's existence said, ‘Quit attacking the Pope. Quit attacking the politici…”

— Al Goldstein, filthy.media

“They accused me of making a president. Now, I don’t know Mr. Nixon any more than what I read in the newspapers. The closest I ever got to him was seeing him on television. They claim I have 50% of Lebanon’s casinos. Fifty percent of Monte Carlo….Now, how ridiculous can we really get? This is just a…”

— Meyer Lansky, youtube.com