Watergate Quotes

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National…

— Sam Ervin

Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way -…

— Rick Perlstein

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

— David Cross

We`re a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s…

— Daniel Fried

The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.

— George T. Conway III

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

— Bob Woodward

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

— Howard Baker

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

— Yip Harburg

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

— Ben Bradlee

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the…

— Gerald R. Ford

I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the…

— Pat Buchanan

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

— Billy Graham

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

— Charles Krauthammer

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti…

— Diane Sawyer

Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised…

— Ronald Kessler

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

— Tom Brokaw

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

— Richard M. Nixon

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not…

— Bob Woodward

“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Monica Crowley

There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun…

— Quentin Tarantino

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

— Bob Woodward

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

— Bob Woodward

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture…

— Jerry Saltz