The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

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.

If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart.

Spending time with mama is the best time I ever spent other than remembering Mighty Allah.

Reality is like a fine wine, ” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children.

It's always easier to take something than work for it...

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

I'm not a good storm-outer... because I forget stuff.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.