Campaign Quote by George T. Conway III

Watergate was a third-rate burglary. It was purely domestic in nature.

— Richard Painter

The Watergate is a hotel in Washington where Nixon operatives broke in to steal campaign information from the Democratic Party. Nixon's people subsequently described…

— Tom Fitton

“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

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

— Richard M. Nixon

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

— Conrad Black

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary…

— Bob Woodward

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

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at…

— Sam Ervin

The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.

— Robert Dallek

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and…

— Bob Woodward

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