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The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. — Pierre Salinger

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. — Henry A. Kissinger

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

I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate. — John Dean

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate. — Robert Dallek

blow your trump - blister your lungs! - Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream! — Herman Melville

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it. — Bob Woodward

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

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet. — G. Gordon Liddy

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity. — Bob Woodward

I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. — Richard M. Nixon

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

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

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

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

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were. — Dave Barry

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

Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it. — Nelson Rockefeller

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

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order. — Tom Brokaw

When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate. — Monica Crowley

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

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

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

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. — Billy Graham

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

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

You know, speaking from experience, I can tell you that there's no aphrodisiac more potent than Watergate-themed cabaret music. — Martin Short

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

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty. — Russell Baker

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

There were no dead bodies in Watergate. — Monica Crowley

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today. — Elliot Richardson

Religion, like Watergate, is a scandal that will not go away. — Dick Russell Peter Levenda

What was Watergate? A little bugging! — Richard M. Nixon

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

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

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

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty. — Dee Dee Myers

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

Even Napoleon had his Watergate. — Yogi Berra

The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do. — Carl Bernstein

...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous. — Hunter S. Thompson

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated. — Conrad Black

I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in. — Gerald R. Ford

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

When President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for Watergate, he actually pardoned Alexander Haig for the JFK assassination. — Tegan Mathis

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

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate. — M. Stanton Evans