Let us begin with my pointing out that Dick Nixon is not my favorite President.
However, he had a tendency to say the most interesting things, on & off the record. And, in their turn, others said interesting things about him.
So, here’s your chance to post your favorite quotes by or about the late President.
I’ll start the Thread off with one of each. Enjoy, & add your own.
BTW–Mods?
If this gets too intense, please move it to the BBQ Pit.
After being defeated for governor of California
from Nixon’s Checkers speech
Ooh, forgot the best:
–Richard Nixon, lying scum
-Richard Nixon
I have never had much sympathy for the point of view, “it isn’t whether you win or lose that counts, but how you play the game.”
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists.
You know what happened to the Greeks. Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates.
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
I would have made a good Pope.
People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.
“He would have been a great, great man had somebody loved him…”
-Henry Kissinger
I forget who said it, but it went something like-
“Dick Nixon is the kind of guy, who, if he saw you drowning 50 feet offshore, would throw a rope 35 feet, and then have Kissinger say he met you more than halfway.”
“I’ve been called worse things by better people.”
I’m disappointed in you geeks.
Morbo: Morbo will now introduce the candidates - Puny Human Number One, Puny Human Number Two, and Morbo’s good friend Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon’s Head: How’s the family, Morbo?
Morbo: Belligerent and numerous.
This would be tough to track down, but I believe this was from “the Oval Office tapes” which Richard Nixon eventually was forced to release.
In August, 1973, someone (John Dean, Haldeman, Ehlichman, etc) was in the Oval Office talking to Nixon concerning the increasingly growing scandal the Watergate break-in was causing.
Nixon replied “Things will be different a year from now.”
One year later in August, 1974 Nixon resigned. 
“I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.” - Richard Nixon
But I was wrong. Whatever else might be said about Nixon – and there is still serious doubt in my mind that he could pass for Human – he is a goddam stone fanatic on every facet of pro football. At one point in our conversation, when I was feeling a bit pressed for leverage, I mentioned a down & out pass – in the waning moments of the 1967 Super Bowl mismatch between Green Bay and Oakland – to an obscure, second-string Oakland receiver named Bill Miller that had struck in my mind because of its pinpoint style & precision.
He hesitated for a moment, lost in thought, then he whacked me on the thigh and laughed: ‘That’s right, by God! The Miami boy!’
I was stunned. He not only remembered the play, but he knew where Miller had played in college.
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear And Loathing on the Campaign Trail, '74.
Hunter Thompson (he’s showing up a lot in this thread), in his eulogy for Nixon:
Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.
Nixon laughed when I told him this. “Don’t worry,” he said. “I, too, am a family man, and we feel the same way about you.”
And since Nixon’s head has made an appearance:
“I’ll sell our children’s organs to zoos for meat, and go into people’s homes at night and wreck up the place!”
The New York Times, which has a history of not using profanity, actually published the phrase “President Nixon’s shitlist.” When readers complained, they retorted:
The Times will accept “shit” from the President of the United States. We will not accept it from anyone else.
I read this in one of Nixon’s post-resignation books, which I consider to be excellent advice for any politician:
“Never say what you will never do.”
Meaning, do not tell your opponents what options you’ve ruled out. Let them have to defend against all of them. Nancy Pelosi violated this rule to the country’s detriment when she ruled out impeachment of the current president, IMHO.
HST, as recorded in Paul Oakenfold’s “Nixon’s Spirit.”
“Avoid needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
Abbie Hoffman, or perhaps Jerry Rubin
From polar opposites of the Nixon quote spectrum –
“A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life’s mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.”
and
“Sock it to me.” – on Laugh In