Watergate Quotes · Page 2

There were no dead bodies in Watergate.

— Monica Crowley

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

— G. Gordon Liddy

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of…

— Tony Campolo

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

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— Monica Crowley

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

— Yip Harburg

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

— Bob Woodward

I think we'll go through a period when there's a revival of concern about ethics. After Watergate, we got the Ethics in…

— Richard Painter

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And…

— Quentin Tarantino

As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the…

— James Howard Kunstler

The possibility of collusion between Trump's allies and Russian intelligence is much more serious than Watergate. It is a constitutional crisis. It…

— Jennifer Palmieri

Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully…

— John Dean

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated…

— Michael Sandel

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with…

— John J. Sirica

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

— Harry Reems

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

— Adam Michnik

I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No…

— George Carlin

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Lionel Barber

Why does The Smartest Woman in the World [Hillary Clinton], who could carve her own career, who was on the Watergate committee…

— Rush Limbaugh

I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who…

— Rod Blagojevich

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

— Jerry Saltz

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

— Bob Woodward

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

— Ed Ponsi

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

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

— Bob Woodward

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

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

— David Cross

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

— Bob Woodward

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

— Bob Woodward

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

— Curt Weldon

“The elimination of Mr. Richard Nixon leaves intact all the mechanisms and all the false values which permitted the Watergate scandal.”

— Claude Julien

When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation…

— Richard M. Nixon

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

There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working…

— Ben Bradlee