Top 167 Watergate Quotes & Sayings

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

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

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

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

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

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

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

I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam.

I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

"Benghazi happened a long time ago. We are unaware of any agency blocking an employee who would like to appear before Congress to provide information related to Benghazi." This is the modus operandi of the regime - any Democrat regime, actually. You stonewall it for a few months, and then after a few months go by you say, "It's an old story." Didn't Watergate happen a long time ago? It still seems to be really relevant, Watergate.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.

I grew up during Watergate. I was enamored of the study of that.

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

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

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

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

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.

I've often wondered what it would have been like if we'd had cable news during the Vietnam War and Watergate.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate.

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

It wasn't until 1973 that Congress and journalists began to investigate 'Operation Menu,' around the same moment that the Watergate scandal was unfolding.

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

There were no dead bodies in Watergate.

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

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.