"It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has le...












...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.

More Hunter S. Thompson quotes
"I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively i...
"So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exc...
"Whatever else the Florida primary might or might not have proved, it put a definite kink in the Media Theory of politics. It may be true, despite what...
"How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some k...
"Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.
"Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
"McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purp...
"To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in Washington” is like sitting far back ...
"The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, exc...
"Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.
"The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.
"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not j...
"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? ...
"Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and b...