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

What did the president know, and when did he know it?

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

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.

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.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

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.

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

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

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

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

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

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

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

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.

I will appoint an attorney general who will reform the Department of Justice like it was necessary after Watergate.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

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

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.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

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

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

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

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

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

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

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

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

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.

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.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

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