The Best Of The Nixon Years

"We're going to [put] more of these little Negro bastards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family--let people like [New York Sen.] Pat Moynihan ... believe in all that crap. But I don't believe in it. Work, work--throw 'em off the rolls. That's the key ... I have the greatest affection for [blacks], but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like."

--Nixon in May 1971

"You see: homosexuality, dope, immorality in general--these are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the communists and the left-wingers are pushing the stuff; they're trying to destroy us."

--Nixon in May 1971

"You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. 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."

--Nixon to H. R. (Bob) Haldeman in May 1971