Nixon

Richard M. Nixon:
Always remember: others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

John Dean:
There's a cancer in the presidency and it's growing.

Richard M. Nixon:
I'd like to offer my condolences to those families. But Nixon can't.

Richard M. Nixon:
Presidents don't threaten. They don't have to.

Richard M. Nixon:
They can't impeach me for bombing Cambodia. The president can bomb anybody he likes.

Pat Nixon:
When do the rest of us stop PAYING OFF YOUR DEBTS?

Alexander Haig:
I'm in control here.

Murray Chotiner:
They stole it fair and square.

Henry Kissinger:
Can you imagine what this man would be like had anyone ever loved him?

Richard M. Nixon:
I bet if I was President they wouldn't have killed me.

Richard M. Nixon:
I hope I haven't let you down.

John Dean:
Can I ask you a question? How the hell do you have the temerity to blackmail the President of the United States?

E. Howard Hunt:
That's not the question John. The question is: why is he paying?

H. R. Haldeman:
Eight words back in '72. 'I covered up. I was wrong. I'm sorry'. The American public would have forgiven him. But we never opened our mouths, John. We failed him.

John Ehrlichman:
Dick Nixon apologize? That will be the day. Most of his armor would fall off.

J. Edgar Hoover:
There's already been one radical in the White House. I don't believe it could survive another.

Richard M. Nixon:
Only when you've been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is on top of the highest mountain.

John Dean:
This is the sort of thing that Mafia people can do, washing money and so forth. We just don't know about these things because we're not criminals.

E. Howard Hunt:
In Richard Nixon's long history of underhanded dealings he's never had better value for his money. If I were to open my mouth all the dominoes would fall.

Haig, Ziegler, and Buzhardt:
It's the President's personal property. I will never give up my tapes to a bunch of Kennedy-loving Harvard Democrat cocksuckers.

Richard M. Nixon:
Do you miss Cuba, Manolo?

Richard M. Nixon:
We let you down, didn't we. Your people.

Richard M. Nixon:
You don't think he was a hero?

Richard M. Nixon:
Did you cry when he died?

Richard M. Nixon:
Why?

Richard M. Nixon:
How did he do that?

Richard M. Nixon:
All those kids... Why do they hate me so much?

Alexander Haig:
I'm afraid we have another problem, Mr. President.

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... "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.

Richard M. Nixon:
...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.

Richard M. Nixon:
John, I want you to get away from this madhouse, these reporters, and go up to Camp David for the weekend. And I want you to write up a report. I want you to put everything you know about Watergate in there.

John Dean:
You want me to put it all in writing. Over my signature.

Richard M. Nixon:
Well, nobody knows more about this thing than you do, John. The details, that stuff, I don't know about.

John Dean:
Sir, I'm not going to be the scapegoat for this. Haldeman and Ehrlicman are in just as deep as me.

John Ehrlichman:
You got people dying because he didn't make the varsity football team. You got the Constitution hanging by a thread because the old man went to Whittier instead of Yale.