“Nixon” quotes

“When they look at you, they see what they want to be. When they look at me, they see what they are.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Young Student: You say you want to end the war, so why don't you?
- Richard M. Nixon: Change always comes slowly. I pulled out more than half the troops. I'm trying to cut the military budget for the first time in 30 years. I want a volunteer army. But it's also a question of American credibility, our position in the world.”
Joanna Going - Young Student
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“People vote not out of love, but fear.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“There's already been one radical in the White House. I don't believe it could survive another.”
Bob Hoskins - J. Edgar Hoover

“- Henry Kissinger: If a Rockefeller can't be the President of the United States then what is the point of democracy?
- Richard M. Nixon: The point of democracy is that even the son of a grocer can become President.”
Paul Sorvino - Henry Kissinger
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“Presidents don't threaten. They don't have to.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“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.”
Ed Harris - E. Howard Hunt

“- Pat Nixon: I just wish you knew how much I love you, that's all. It took me a long time to fall in love with you, Dick. But I did. And it doesn't make you happy. You want them to love you...
- Richard M. Nixon: No, I don't. I'm not Jack...
- Pat Nixon: But they never will, Dick. No matter how many elections you win, they never will.”

Joan Allen - Pat Nixon
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
Paul Sorvino - Henry Kissinger

“- 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?”
David Hyde Pierce - John Dean
Ed Harris - E. Howard Hunt

“- Richard M. Nixon: This is about me. Why can't you understand that, you of all people? It's not the war - It's Nixon! They want to destroy Nixon! And if I expose myself even the slightest bit they'll tear my insides out. Do you want that? Do you want to see that, buddy? It's not pretty.
- Pat Nixon: Sometimes I think that's what you want.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon
Joan Allen - Pat Nixon

“He had chaos and civil war and hatred between the races. Sometimes I go to the Lincoln room at the White House and just pray. But you know, liberals act like idealism belongs to them. That's not true. My family went Republican because Lincoln freed the slaves. My grandmother was an abolitionist, those Quakers who founded Whittier, my hometown......” (continue)(continue reading)

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“I'd like to offer my condolences to those families. But Nixon can't.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“It's the President's personal property. I will never give up my tapes to a bunch of Kennedy-loving Harvard Democrat cocksuckers.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Richard M. Nixon: I'm not Jack Kennedy.
- Pat Nixon: No, you're not. So stop comparing yourself to him. You have no reason to. You have everything you ever wanted. You've earned it. Why can't you just enjoy it?”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon
Joan Allen - Pat Nixon

“Can you imagine what this man would be like had anyone ever loved him?”

Paul Sorvino - Henry Kissinger

“They can't impeach me for bombing Cambodia. The president can bomb anybody he likes.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“I miss making love to the people. I miss entering a room. I miss the pure acting of it, John. I gotta get back in the arena.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Young Student: You can't stop it, can you? Even if you wanted to. Because it's not you, it's the system. The system won't let you stop it.
- Richard M. Nixon: There's... there's more at stake here than what you want, or what I want.
- Young Student: Then what's the point? What's the point of being President? You're powerless!”

Joanna Going - Young Student
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Student #1: Come on, Mr. Nixon. It's a civil war between Vietnamese.
- Young Student: You don't want the war, we don't want the war, the Vietnamese don't want the war, so why does it go on?”
Peter Carlin - Student #1
Joanna Going - Young Student

“Is peace all you are interested in? The real war is in us. History is a symptom of our disease.”
Ric Young - Mao Tse-Tung

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

“- Alexander Haig: 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.”
Powers Boothe - Alexander Haig
Philip Anthony Hopkins - 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.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Richard M. Nixon: We let you down, didn't we? Your people.
- Manolo Sanchez: That was Mr. Kennedy, sir.
- Richard M. Nixon: You don't think he was a hero?
- Manolo Sanchez: He was a politican.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon
Tony Plana - Manolo Sanchez