Country Quote by Archibald Cox

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

— Tony Campolo

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

— Tiny Tim

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

— John Wayne

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

— Thomas Mallon

The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we…

— Carl Bernstein

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive…

— Bob Woodward

“He never really voice pure, raw outrage to me about Watergate or what it represented. The crimes and abuses were background music. Nixon was…

— Bob Woodward

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

— Gore Vidal

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide…

— Rick Perlstein

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

— Rick Perlstein

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.

— Robert Dallek