Quotes About 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.

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.

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.

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

I sat next to Carl Bernstein throughout Watergate, and Woodward would come over, and they would argue everything out, so I was really tuned into what happened.

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

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

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

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.

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

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.

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

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

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

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

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

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

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.