Nixon 1995 - Movie Quotes

Richard M. Nixon [to a portrait of Kennedy] When they look at you, they see what they want to be. When they look at me, they see what they are.

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[Nixon is making an impromptu nighttime visit to the Lincoln Memorial, where a group of young protestors have camped out]

Richard M. Nixon Hi! I'm Dick Nixon.

[He starts shaking hands with the incredulous protesters]

Richard M. Nixon [to one young protester] Hi. Where you from?

Student #1 Syracuse.

Richard M. Nixon Oh yeah, the Orangemen. Now there's a football program. Jim Brown. And that other tailback... the one with the blood disease.

Student #1 Ernie Davis.

Richard M. Nixon Yeah, right, right. I used to play a little ball myself at Whittier. 'Course, they used to use me as a tackling dummy.

Young Student [Stepping forward] We didn't come here to talk about football.

Richard M. Nixon Yeah, I understand that. How old are you, young lady?

Young Student 19.

Richard M. Nixon Yeah. Well, probably most of you think I'm a real SOB. I know that. I understand how you feel, but you know, I want peace too. But peace with honor.

Student #2 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.

Student #2 Yeah? Tell that to the GI's who are gonna die tomorrow in Vietnam.

Student #1 What you have to understand, Mr. Nixon, is we're willing to die for what we believe in.

[the other protesters say "Yeah!"]

Richard M. Nixon [Turns and points to the statue of Lincoln] Look, that man up there, he lived in similar times. 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... to abolish slavery. They were, y'know, conservative Bible folk, but they had a powerful sense of right and wrong. And 40 years ago, I was like you, looking for answers.

[the protesters scoff, unconvinced. Just then a gang of Nixon's aides, led by Haldeman, arrive and push through the crowd to come to his side]

Richard M. Nixon It's OK, Bob, we're just rapping, my friends and I. In fact we agree on a lot of things, don't we?

Young Student No, we don't! 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.

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?

[Nixon hesitates. Haldeman whispers "We should be going" to him]

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!

Richard M. Nixon [Firmly] No. No, I'm not powerless. Because, because I understand the system, I believe I can, uh, I can control it. Maybe not control it totally, but tame it enough to make it do some good.

Young Student Sounds like you're talking about a wild animal.

Richard M. Nixon Yeah, maybe I am.

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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.

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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?

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

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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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[the day after John F. Kennedy's murder]

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

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Pat Nixon I was thinking tonight - do you remember, Dick? Do you remember when you used to drive me on dates with the other boys? You didn't want to let me out of your sight.

Richard M. Nixon Yeah, sure, a long time ago.

Pat Nixon Yes, it's been a long time...

[sensing a signal, recoils]

Richard M. Nixon I don't need that, buddy. I'm not Jack Kennedy.

Pat Nixon [rebuffed] 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?

Richard M. Nixon I do. I do. In my own way.

Pat Nixon Then what are you scared of, honey?

Richard M. Nixon I'm not scared, buddy... You don't understand. They're playing for keeps, buddy. The press, the kids, the liberals - they're out there, trying to figure out how to tear me down.

Pat Nixon They're all your enemies?

Richard M. Nixon Yes!

Pat Nixon You personally?

Richard M. Nixon Yes! 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.

Richard M. Nixon [contemptuous] What the hell are you saying? Are you drunk? Jesus, you sound just like them now! I've got to keep fighting, buddy, for the country. These people running things, the elite... they're soft, chickenshit faggots! They just want to cover their asses and meet girls and tear each other down. Oh, God, this country's in deep, deep trouble, buddy... and I have to see this through. Mother would've wanted no less of me.

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...

[motions outward, indicating the public]

Richard M. Nixon [interjects] 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.

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

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J. Edgar Hoover I want to see him.

Clyde Tolson He works in the kitchen, Edgar.

J. Edgar Hoover Not the boy, idiot. Nixon!

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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.

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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.

H. R. Haldeman You'll tell Mitchell?

[Ehrlichman nods. Haldeman turns to go, then hesitates]

H. R. Haldeman And John... you *do* know that you and I are next?

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[after the Kent State shootings]

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

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[while Nixon is being wheeled through hospital on a stretcher]

Alexander Haig I'm in charge here!

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Richard M. Nixon She got it, Bob. 19-year-old college kid.

H. R. Haldeman What? Who?

Richard M. Nixon She understood something it's taken me 25 years in politics to understand. The CIA, the Mafia, those Wall Street bastards...

H. R. Haldeman Sir?

Richard M. Nixon The Beast. 19-year-old kid. She called it a wild animal.

H. R. Haldeman Yes, sir.

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

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Richard M. Nixon You see, when I saw Bobby lying there on the floor, arms stretched out, his eyes staring... I knew then I'd be President. His death paved the way, didn't it? Vietnam, the Kennedys, cleared a path through the wilderness just for me. Over the bodies. Four bodies.

H. R. Haldeman You mean two. Two bodies.

Richard M. Nixon Four.

[He walks up to a portrait of Abraham Lincoln]

Richard M. Nixon How many did you have? Hundreds of thousands? Where would we be without death? Abe? Who's helping us? Is it God or is it death?

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

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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.

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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.

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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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Julie Nixon [hesitantly] Did you, Daddy? Did you cover it up?

Richard M. Nixon Do you think I would do something like that, honey?

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Mao-Tse-Tung [Speaking through an interpreter] Is peace all you are interested in? The real war is in us. History is a symptom of our disease.

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[to a White House portrait of Dwight Eisenhower]

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

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Henry Kissinger [to Chairman Mao] Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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[On whether or not he wants more money]

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.

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Richard M. Nixon Do you miss Cuba, Manolo?

Manolo Sanchez Yes, Mr. President.

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 [shrugs] He was a politican.

Richard M. Nixon Did you cry when he died?

Manolo Sanchez Yes.

Richard M. Nixon Why?

Manolo Sanchez I don't know. He made me... see the stars.

Richard M. Nixon How did he do that?

[a beat. Nixon is deep in thought]

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

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President's Lawyer Sir, don't you think all these deletion marks in the transcripts make it look as though you do nothing but swear?

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[Nixon awkwardly puts his arm around John Dean, his legal counsel]

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.

[a pause]

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

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John Ehrlichman Well, sir, it turns out one of the people implicated is still on the White House payroll.

Richard M. Nixon Who? Not another damn Cuban?

H. R. Haldeman No sir. A guy named Hunt. Howard Hunt, sir.

Richard M. Nixon [Fear creeping on his face] Hunt? Howard Hunt?

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Gordon Liddy We rendezvous where? The Watergate, room 214. When? At 0300 hours.

Frank Sturgis, Watergate Burglar Jawohl, Mein Fartenfuhrer.

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H. R. Haldeman [Watching Nixon on TV announcing the resignations of him and John Ehrlichman] Six bodies.

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Richard M. Nixon What you predicting?

Nelson Rockefeller Your boy Goldwater are gonna split the party?

Richard M. Nixon Some say you are, Rocky.

Nelson Rockefeller Let me tell you something. Every time the Republican party is a home to extremism, we lose the goddamn election. You oughta know that better than anybody.

Richard M. Nixon Yeah.

Nelson Rockefeller This guy Goldwater is as stupid as McCarthy, and McCarthy never did you any good in the long run, now, did he? That's right.

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[repeated line]

Harold Nixon Relax, Dick.

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Henry Kissinger History will treat you far more kindly than your contemporaries.

Richard M. Nixon Yeah. Depends who writes the history books.

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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.

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'Jack Jones' Detente with communists? Detente! Sounds like a couple of fags dancing.

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Frank Nixon Struggle's what gives life meaning. Not victory, struggle. When you quit struggling, they've beaten you.

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Mao-Tse-Tung We are both from poor families and others pay to feed the hunger in us..In my case, millions of reactionaries. In your case, millions of Vietnamese

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Richard M. Nixon Follow the money.

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Richard M. Nixon Government secrets mean nothing.

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Pat Nixon This isn't political. This is our life.

Richard M. Nixon Everything's political. I'm political, you're political.

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Richard M. Nixon I think that's when it starts, when you're a kid.

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Pat Nixon [watching the protesters during her daughter's wedding] We're not going to buckle to these people.

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[On losing the 1960 Presidential election to John F. Kennedy]

Murray Chotiner They stole it fair and square.

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

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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.

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Richard M. Nixon [pounds keys on piano] Cocksucker.

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Richard M. Nixon Why are these assholes turning on me?

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Richard M. Nixon I hate these cocktail parties. John, I'm in hell. I'll be mentally dead in two years and physically dead in four.

John Mitchell Make some money, Dick. Prove yourself to the Wall Street crowd. Let Goldwater and Rockefeller take the fall against Kennedy.

Richard M. Nixon I don't know why. 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.

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Richard M. Nixon Well you live pretty well out here. I understand why you want to keep your budgets classified.

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Henry Kissinger If they harass you, I too would resign, and I would tell the world why.

Richard M. Nixon Don't be stupid. The world needs you, Henry.

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Richard M. Nixon I'm not a quitter, never have been. But I'm not stupid either. A trial would kill me, that's what they want. They won't get it.

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Richard M. Nixon Do ever think of death, Dick?

CIA director Richard Helms Flowers are a continual reminder of our mortality. Do you appreciate flowers?

Richard M. Nixon No, no they make me sick, and they smell like death. I had two brothers die young... Well let me tell you. There are worse things than death.

CIA director Richard Helms Yes?

[special effects have turned his eyes completely black]

Richard M. Nixon There's such a thing as evil.

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Richard M. Nixon I never thought Kennedy was ready for the presidency.

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John Ehrlichman We created Frankenstein with these damn Cubans.

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John Ehrlichman What's this Bay of Pigs thing? He goes white every time you mention it.

H. R. Haldeman It's a code.

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Richard M. Nixon I was born to do this.

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Richard M. Nixon [on Martha Mitchell] How can you put up with her, John?

John Mitchell Well, I love her. That, and she is great in bed.

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[first lines]

Earl in Training Film I just don't understand it.

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Johnny Roselli [to Hoover while seeing Nixon walking to them] Your boy's on the way up!

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James McCord, Watergate Burglar Years of decency and clean living are over!

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Richard M. Nixon [on her daughter's wedding] This is the happiest day of my life!

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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.

Nelson Rockefeller And you came damn close, Dick. How are you?

Richard M. Nixon Hi, John.

Nelson Rockefeller New York treating you all right? I'm sorry I haven't been able to see you at all.

Richard M. Nixon You're looking happy.

Nelson Rockefeller Happy, Happy, Dick Nixon. You remember him.

Happy Rockefeller Nice to see you again.

Richard M. Nixon You're obviously making him happy.

Nelson Rockefeller Repartee, Dick. That's marvelous.

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H. R. Haldeman You making any statement?

Richard M. Nixon Thank you, Fidel Castro!

Pat Nixon You're not going to blame Castro, are you?

Richard M. Nixon I'm sure am. Goddamn missile crisis united the whole country behind Kennedy and he was supporting Brown. People were scared, that's why.

Pat Nixon I suppose Castro staged the whole thing just to beat you.

Richard M. Nixon Buddy, before you join the jubilation of my being beaten again you should remember that people vote not out of love but fear. They don't teach that at Sunday school or the Whitier Community Playhouse.

H. R. Haldeman [leaving the room] I'll go check with our people.

Pat Nixon I'm glad they don't, Dick. I'm glad they don't because life is tough and it is unfair and sometimes you forget that in your self pity.

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E. Howard Hunt [on Gordon Liddy] He thinks he's Martin Bormann.

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Hannah Nixon Remember, I see into thy soul. Thee may fool the world, even thy father, but not me, Richard. Never me.

Richard Nixon, 12 Years Old Mother, think of me always as thy faithful dog.

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Richard M. Nixon They always underestimated old Nixon, see. We're gonna fight just as dirty. This is sudden death, gentlemen. We're gonna get 'em on the ground, stick in our spikes and twist and show them no mercy. So, uh, starting today, no one in this room talks to the press without checking with Mr. Haldeman here. That means we're on complete freeze on The New York Times, CBS, PBS, Jack Anderson and The Washington Post. Mr. Haldeman is the chief high executioner from now on. Don't come whining to me when he tells you to do something. That's me talking. And if you do come to me, I'm gonna be tougher than he is. Anyone who screws with us, his fucking head comes off. You got that?

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John Mitchell [to a pushy reporter] Stick that up your keister, fella.

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[repeated line]

Richard M. Nixon Well, that's not good enough.

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Pat Nixon I have always stood by you. I campaigned for you when I was pregnant. During Checkers, when Ike wanted you out, I told you to fight. This is different, Dick. You've changed. You've grown more bitter, like you're at war with the world. You didn't use to be that way. I'm 50 years old now, Dick. How many millions of miles have I traveled? How many millions of hands have I shaken of people I just don't like? How many millions of thank you notes have I written? Its as if I went to sleep a long time ago and missed the years in between. I've had enough.

Richard M. Nixon What are you saying? What are you talking about?

Pat Nixon I want a divorce.

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Richard M. Nixon Don't be too proud, Henry. Never be too proud to go on your knees before God.

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Richard M. Nixon My mother was a saint, but my old man struggled his whole life. They could call him a little man, a poor man, but they never beat him. I always tried to remember that, when things didn't go my way.

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'Jack Jones' Hell, Kennedy just pissed Cuba away to the Russians. Just pissed it away. And he doesn't know what the hell he's doing in Vietnam. These are dangerous times, especially for business.

Richard M. Nixon Agreed.

Cuban Man We know what you tried to do for Cuba, Mr. Nixon. If you had been elected in '60, Castro would be dead now.

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Frank Nixon You think this is funny? Maybe a trip to the wood shed'll straigthen you out. Pretty soon you boys are gonna have to get out there and scratch. 'Cause you're not gonna get anywhere on your good looks. Just ask those fellas. Charity's only gonna get you so far, even with saints like your mother around. Struggle's what gives life meaning. Not victory, struggle. When you quit struggling they've beaten you. And then you end up in the street with your hand out.

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Richard M. Nixon That's what I want. To bring us together.

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'Jack Jones' Dick, your country needs you.

Richard M. Nixon Unfortunately, the country's not available right now.

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Richard M. Nixon He was a man who suffered greatly. And he said, On the road of the informer, it is always night.

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Richard M. Nixon Unpredictability is our best asset.

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Richard M. Nixon Yeah, well, plenty of people did their best writing in prison. Gandhi, Lenin.

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Richard M. Nixon I pity the next guy who sits here.

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John Mitchell [on Pat Nixon] You need her, Dick. In '60, she was worth five, six million votes.

Richard M. Nixon Yeah. Don't worry. I'll use the old Nixon charm.

H. R. Haldeman [to Ron Ziegler, after Nixon walks out] Who could resist that?

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Bill Rogers It'd be a disaster. There's a lot of sympathy out there for Cambodia. Tiny, little, neutral Buddhist country. They'll be rioting in the streets, on your front lawn!

Mel Laird Building the Cambodian army up? My God, that would be harder than a Vietnamese army. They have no tradition. Mr. President, the government there will collapse.

Richard M. Nixon So you're saying do nothing.

Mel Laird No, sir, continue the bombing.

Richard M. Nixon The same old horseshit. Well, that's not good enough. I'm sick of being pushed around by the Vietnamese like we're some, uh, you know, pitiful giant. They're using our POWs to humiliate us. What we need now is a bold move into Cambodia and go right after their VC base camp and uh... make'em scream, hit'em in the ass.

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'Jack Jones' I don't think you know how much people hate Kennedy down here. Hell, he's coming to town tomorrow, and I guarantee they will run his ass outta town on a rail.

Texas Man Damn right.

'Jack Jones' Now, we are willing to give you a shit pot full of money to get rid of him. More than you ever dreamed of.

Richard M. Nixon Nobody's gonna beat Kennedy in '64 with all the money in the world.

Cuban Man Suppose Kennedy don't run in '64.

Richard M. Nixon Not a chance.

[Cuban Man nods positively]

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Alexander Haig Remember, the weasel's got no proof.

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John Ehrlichman Excuse me, sir. Are you saying you're gonna recognize Red China? That would cost us our strongest support.

Richard M. Nixon No, I can do this because I spent my whole career building anti-Communist credentials.

H. R. Haldeman If Kennedy or Johnson tried it, they'd have crucified them, and rightfully so.

John Mitchell Damned risky, Mr. President. Why don't we wait until the second term?

H. R. Haldeman This will get us a second term.

Richard M. Nixon This will get me a second term. Damn it, without risk, there's no heroism, there's no history. Nixon was born to do this. Give history a nudge. Come on.

H. R. Haldeman Hear, hear.

Richard M. Nixon If Cambodia doesn't work, we'll bomb Hanoi if we have to. That's right. And if necessary, I'll drop the big one.

[everybody in the dinner table stays silent]

Henry Kissinger We have to entertain the possibility.

Richard M. Nixon Goddamn it! Who cooked this damn steak? Manolo, there's blood all over my plate. Take it away.

Manolo Sanchez I'm sorry, sir.

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Richard M. Nixon Yeah. All leaders must finally be sacrificed.

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Nixon Movie Quotes