Impact Quote by Elliot Richardson

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

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

— Gore Vidal

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.

— Robert Dallek

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 showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on…

— Archibald Cox

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

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

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

— Tom Brokaw

“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

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 provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play…

— Bob Woodward