Character Quote by Charles Krauthammer

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

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

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

— Claude Julien

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York…

— Lionel Barber

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

— Joe Lieberman

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

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth.…

— Anonymous

“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

ON WATERGATE: The reluctant cover up of a third rate burglary which President Nixon new nothing about until after the debacle brought down an…

— John Lars Zwerenz

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

— Conrad Black