Big Quote by Walter Cronkite

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Gore Vidal

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 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

“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

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

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

— Curt Weldon

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

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

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

— Conrad Black