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Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
What was Watergate? A little bugging!
There were no dead bodies in Watergate.
I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.
Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.
The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.
What did the president know, and when did he know it?
The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.
I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.
I grew up during Watergate. I was enamored of the study of that.
We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
Watergate was a third-rate burglary. It was purely domestic in nature.
The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.
Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.
The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn't have the KGB do the Watergate job.
Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate.
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.
I've often wondered what it would have been like if we'd had cable news during the Vietnam War and Watergate.
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.
Keeping his face clean over Watergate was one of Kissinger's biggest successes; so was his overall handling of the Yom Kippur War.
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
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.
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.
There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on 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.
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.
It wasn't until 1973 that Congress and journalists began to investigate 'Operation Menu,' around the same moment that the Watergate scandal was unfolding.
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.
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.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
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 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.
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.