Watergate Quotes · Page 2

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

— Pierre Salinger

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

— Richard M. Nixon

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

— Russell Baker

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

— Billy Graham

No one -- absolutely no one -- is above the law,

— Leon Jaworski

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Nelson Rockefeller

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.

— Robert Dallek

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

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

— David Cross

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

— Robert Dallek

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

— Nguyen Cao Ky

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

— Bob Woodward

I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism…

— Tiny Tim

Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising,…

— Walter Cronkite

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

— Claude Julien

“In its broadest sense, the scandal of Watergate arose from the tumultuous and destabilizing trends of the 1960s, especially the war in…

— James T. Patterson

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the…

— Bob Woodward

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

— Sam Ervin

I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital…

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what…

— Thomas Mallon

The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Jerry Saltz

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about…

— Howard Fineman

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

— Adam Michnik

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

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

— Harry Reems

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

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

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Ben Bradlee

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

— Bob Woodward

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

— Bob Woodward

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

— Tony Campolo

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

— G. Gordon Liddy

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

— Yip Harburg

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

— Rod Lurie

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

— Jim Starlin

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

— Charles Krauthammer