Can you imagine what Nixon would have been like had somebody loved him? He would have been a great, great man had somebody loved him

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon Administration ever did.