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“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

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

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party…

— Gerald R. Ford

“Reporters were ill paid in those days and lacked the resources in staff or money to dig deeply into McCarthy's charges. The Washington press…

— James T. Patterson

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

— Conrad Black

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

— Charles Krauthammer

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

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

— Tom Petri

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

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad…

— Will Rogers

“The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power, and influence. Our sole weapon is public…

— David Mitchell