Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

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

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.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

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.

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

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.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.

You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.

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