Hunter S. Thompson
to Richard Nixon:

“Let me ask you a question, sir: what is this country doing for the doomed? There are two kinds of people in this country, the doomed and the screwheads. […] I was never really frightened by the bopheads, and the potheads with their silliness never really frightened me either, but these goddamn screwheads, they terrify me. And the poor doomed — the young, and the silly, the honest, the weak, the Italians — they’re doomed, they’re lost, they’re helpless, they’re somebody else’s meal, they’re like pigs in the wilderness.”

The following is a direct quote from Thompson’s scathing obituary of Richard Nixon, originally published in Rolling Stone on June 16, 1994:

“He was not only a crook but a fool. Two years after he quit, he told a TV journalist that ‘if the president does it, it can’t be illegal.'”

“Shit. Not even Spiro Agnew was that dumb. He was a flat-out, knee-crawling thug with the morals of a weasel on speed. But he was Nixon’s vice president for five years, and he only resigned when he was caught red-handed taking cash bribes across his desk in the White House.”