John N. Mitchell

John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 – November 9, 1988) was United States Attorney General under President Richard M. Nixon.

Quotes

 * You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
 * Remarks (overheard by reporters) in July 1969 after meeting with a group of black civil rights workers, who protested the Administration's action on the Voting Rights Act of 1965
 * reported in :
 * The Washington Post, "Watch What We Do," editorial (July 7, 1969), p. A22.


 * This country is going so far to the right you won't recognize it.
 * To a reporter, mentioned in :


 * All that crap, you're putting it in the paper? It's all been denied. Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published. Good Christ! That's the most sickening thing I ever heard.
 * Quoted by :
 * Katharine Graham