Administration Quote by Bob Woodward

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely…

— John le Carre

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

— Candy Crowley

From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States has a…

— Ari Melber

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing…

— Bob Woodward

When you go through things publicly, there's no hiding.

— Carly Pearce

Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion…

— Sharyl Attkisson

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a…

— Dee Dee Myers

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

— Howard Zinn

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step,…

— Bob Woodward

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby,…

— Scott McClellan

I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me…

— William J. Clinton

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on…

— Helen Thomas