Favourite Nixon Quote?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

The Allende/Fezzy's whinge against people NOT RESPECTING 9/11 OMG thread got me thinking - we need the greatest Nixon Quote thread (perhaps we can turn into a survivor?). This has to be the greatest quote by Nixon, not about Nixon or else this thread would nothing but five pages of Hunter S. Thompson with that line about the only thing making Nixon happy seeing a paraplegic try to vote democratic but unable to reach the level would win (though HSTs comments on Nixon's funeral might give that a close running).

Anyway, the Gully Foyle backed nominations are (all taken from Wikiquote - some are responses to Kissinger - Kissinger bits in Italic. Nixon in Normal Font):

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4.

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5.

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These are from the tape transcripts:
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For more: http://nixontapes.org/origin.htm

EDIT: Changed #6.

[Psychic Octopus]

Option 7 should be eliminated first. I can't  can believe he said that.

[fezzyfestoon]

The Allende/Fezzy's whinge against people NOT RESPECTING 9/11 OMG

[Хahar 🤔]

Three, because it's entirely true.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Missed this one - also from Wikiquote:

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Write-in campaign!

EDIT: No need for write-in. Made an earlier mistake and repeated one of the quotes - it is now Option Six. I'm voting for it.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Missed this one - also from Wikiquote:

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Write-in campaign!

Brilliant. The man was clearly insane.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

It makes me warm and fuzzy inside to know that this man will always be remembered as one of the most disgracful and worst presidents that America has ever had. 

He was truly a horrible man, when he makes me feel that maybe Dubaya wasn't that bad after all, just by reading a few quotes.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Missed this one - also from Wikiquote:

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Write-in campaign!

Brilliant. The man was clearly [b]insane.[/b] brilliant.

[opebo]

Just an american fascist who spoke his mind - in other words a kind of everyman.  But I will say he was a very amusing personality.  I doubt Hitler was ever this funny.

I voted number five - they're all good, but saying 'I suppose it is because most've them are psychiatrists' is just hilarious.  Its like Woody Allen and Herman Goering all wrapped up in one twitchy package.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Just an american fascist who spoke his mind - in other words a kind of everyman.  But I will say he was a very amusing personality.  I doubt Hitler was ever this funny.

I voted number five - they're all good, but saying 'I suppose it is because most've them are psychiatrists' is just hilarious.  Its like Woody Allen and Herman Goering all wrapped up in one twitchy package.

I bet you would have said them all.........

[pogo stick]

Option 3.

Because it proved how Nixon's corruption blinded  him.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Option 8

[Psychic Octopus]

Changing mine to Option 10.

[12th Doctor]

Option 6!

[Sam Spade]

I happen to like all of them.

I also think I might have said something similar to each of them of some point in my life, but I was never paranoid enough to record such statements for posterity.

[Frodo]

Option 3 -it encapsulates the man perfectly. 

[Landslide Lyndon]

Certainly 3. This quote seems almost prescient after W. and Cheney's co-presidency.

[opebo]

I happen to like all of them.

I also think I might have said something similar to each of them of some point in my life...

Do you embrace your racism, homophobia, and antisemitism, or do you regret?

[RosettaStoned]

Option 10!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Bump in honour (?) of the man's centenary.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Of all the threads I've created in this forum, I think this is the one I'm proudest of.

[Antonio the Sixth]

As horrendous as they might be, I suspect that quotes 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are relatively par for the course for a conservative man born in the 1910s.

3 pretty much epitomizes Nixon's idea of power. But I'd say the scariest ones are by far 1 and 6. This man was clearly a sociopath.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Probably 3--especially when Frost asks him "By definiton?", and he responds, "Exactly."  And Nixon was a strong supporter of civil rights, so I can't believe that he ever said some of those things.  And remember that he was a Quaker, and they have a long history of fighting for civil rights.  So even if some of his personal views were bigoted (and given the context of the time, those quotes hardly prove that), he wasn't blinded by it in his political life.

Personally, what may be my very favorite Nixon quote wasn't on here:

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[© tweed]

I voted 5 because it is up the alley of some of my main autobiographical interests (marijuana, psychotherapy, Jewish background).  Nixon reads more like a Russian novel character than I'd imagined.

[Indy Texas]

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I believe this comment would make Nixon a "liberal" in the modern GOP's eyes. After all, what kind of degenerate wants to allow abortion in cases of rape?