Branches Quote by 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

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

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

— Walter Cronkite

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

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

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

— Gore Vidal

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Curt Weldon

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

— Rod Lurie

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

— James T. Patterson

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

— Charles Krauthammer