Watergate Quotes · Page 2

There were no dead bodies in Watergate.

— Monica Crowley

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

— Dee Dee Myers

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

— Gerald R. Ford

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

— Howard Baker

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

— Yogi Berra

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

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

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

— Robert Klein

Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn't have the KGB do the Watergate job.

— Richard Painter

Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights…

— Scott Turow

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal?…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing…

— Archibald Cox

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

— John Dean

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

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

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later…

— Fred F. Fielding

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

— Samuel Dash

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

Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Richard Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With…

— Seymour Hersh

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

— John Wayne

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

— Eddie Gibbs

“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

Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar…

— Jonathan Alter

“Reporters were ill paid in those days and lacked the resources in staff or money to dig deeply into McCarthy's charges. The…

— James T. Patterson

“The CIA is behind it all. That’s the conclusion of Mae Brussell—one of America’s foremost assassination experts—a researcher who has collected every…

— Mae Brussell

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

— Tobe Hooper

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

— Charles Colson

I will appoint an attorney general who will reform the Department of Justice like it was necessary after Watergate.

— Donald Trump

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

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

— Bob Woodward

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

— Curt Weldon

Watergate was a third-rate burglary. It was purely domestic in nature.

— Richard Painter

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

— Bob Woodward

I've often wondered what it would have been like if we'd had cable news during the Vietnam War and Watergate.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Bob Woodward