Quotes from John Dean

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

I've been surfing so many years and it's a pretty strong part of my life so I'm not gonna give that up.

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.

It's a limited hang-out.

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.