King Richard Quotes

“I am hurt, but I am not slain; I’ll lay me down and bleed a-while, And then I’ll rise and fight again!”
― Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

“Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
― Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

“A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.”
― Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

“His answer foreshadowed the rise of a new conservative populism built around the politics of patriotism and social identity rather than economic advantage and class division. “Because, you see, I love my country. And I think my country is in danger.”
― Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

“He was particularly aggrieved by his narrow loss to Jack Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, which turned on a few thousand votes in Texas and Illinois. Nixon was in “no doubt” that substantial voter fraud had been committed. He blamed his defeat on the dirty tricks of “the most ruthless group of political operators ever mobilized for a presidential campaign” and the “slanted reporting” of brazenly pro-Kennedy journalists. He did not contest the results of the election for fear of being labeled a sore loser. Nevertheless, from that moment on, he wrote later, “I had the wisdom and wariness of someone who had been burned by the power of the Kennedys and their money and by the license they were given by the media. I vowed that I would never again enter an election at a disadvantage by being vulnerable to them—or anyone—on the level of political tactics.”
― Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

“I do not believe that Nixon did order the break-in,” Bob Haldeman observed many years later. “Nor that he even knew about it. But I do believe that he caused it.”
― Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

“During their entire sixteen years together, Nixon had never treated Haldeman as a friend, only as an employee. There had been only one family dinner together with their wives, back in 1962.”
― Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy

“the time. You can’t let him out.” After many years of observing Nixon, Haldeman had concluded that his boss was “the strangest man I ever met.”
― Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy

“He was at once his enforcer, his nanny, and his therapist.”
― Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy

“Nixon was learning what the Greeks had already known: “that the worst punishment can be having one’s wishes fulfilled too completely.”
― Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy