Amendment Quote by Lionel Barber

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result,…

— Samuel Dash

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else…

— Richard M. Nixon

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

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but…

— Howard Fineman

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

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

— Curt Weldon

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

— Gore Vidal

This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming…

— Patterson Hood

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

— Bob Woodward

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.

— Robert Dallek

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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