Quotes About Controversy

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

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 to revolve around it.

There were no dead bodies in Watergate.

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

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn't have the KGB do the Watergate job.

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.

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

The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

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

The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

Rep. Waters is a danger to our society.

If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right?

There was this wave of people who were upset that I was possibly married to a white man.

The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right.

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?