Watergate Quotes · Page 2

What did the president know, and when did he know it?

— Howard Baker

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

— Yogi Berra

I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

— Gerald R. Ford

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

— Dee Dee Myers

There were no dead bodies in Watergate.

— Monica Crowley

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

— Bob Woodward

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

— Bob Woodward

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..

— Ben Bradlee

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

— Richard M. Nixon

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

— Stephen Ambrose

When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.

— Monica Crowley

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

— Gore Vidal

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who…

— Bob Menendez

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there…

— Dee Dee Myers

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as…

— Samuel Dash

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate…

— Edward Klein

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered…

— Conrad Black

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be…

— Bob Woodward

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and…

— Bob Woodward

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent.…

— Richard M. Nixon

Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power,…

— John Wayne

“The eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap on the June 20, 1972, tape. Haldeman’s notes indicated that he and Nixon had discussed Watergate on this first…

— Anonymous

Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church…

— Eddie Gibbs

I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States.…

— Marianne Williamson

The court case against me was a dictate out of the White House. Richard Nixon instructed the Justice Department to prosecute pornography…

— Harry Reems

This is a world that's big enough for everyone. I like that message in that comes out of John Lasseter, and it…

— Eddie Izzard

Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative…

— Adam Michnik

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the…

— Lionel Barber

ON WATERGATE: The reluctant cover up of a third rate burglary which President Nixon new nothing about until after the debacle brought…

— John Lars Zwerenz

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

— Charles Krauthammer

I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam.

— Jim Starlin

I grew up during Watergate. I was enamored of the study of that.

— Rod Lurie

This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.

— Yip Harburg

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of…

— Bob Woodward

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.

— Robert Dallek

Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.

— Nelson Rockefeller

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

— Bob Woodward

“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.” —Danny Ozark, Former Philadelphia Phillies Manager”

— Ed Ponsi