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• Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

  Yogi Berra

  Wisdom, Political, Politics

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• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Memories, War, Wiping Out

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• 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

  Taught, Republican, Middle

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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

  Curt Weldon

  People, Needs, Stories

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• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Work, Believe, Independent

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, Truth, Powerful

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• I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Hero, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Motherhood, Government, Play

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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

  Donald Trump

  Justice, Reform, Attorney

  Source: time.com

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• I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. On Media's Participation In Watergate

  Pat Buchanan

  Thinking, Media, Mind

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• Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

  Russell Baker

  Honesty, Cities, Left

  Russell Baker (2014). “So This is Depravity”, p.107, Diversion Books

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• 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.

  Archibald Cox

  Country, Weakness, Judgment

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• What was Watergate? A little bugging!

  Richard M. Nixon

  Littles

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• Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the poll numbers, people knew Nixon was deeply involved in Watergate and stayed with him for a long time. It's a natural tendency.

  John Dean

  Numbers, Long, People

  Source: progressive.org

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

  Bob Woodward

  Political, Stories, Used

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Character, Fundraising, Presidential

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• Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

  Helen Thomas

  Erosion, Presidential, Stronger

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• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Achievement, President, Literature

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• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Maps, Scandal

  "Readers recommend: songs about scandal" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2015.

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• 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.

  Howard Fineman

  Ideas, Majority, Noble

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• This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it.

  Patterson Hood

  Growing Up, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

  Sam Ervin

  Country, War, Sacrifice

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• The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

  Thomas Frank

  Hero, Islands, Would Be

  Thomas Frank (2012). “Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right”, p.11, Macmillan

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• We`re a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the very notion of liberal democracy is being questioned, and that is disturbing.

  Daniel Fried

  Democracy, Vietnam, Littles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.

  Tom Brokaw

  Years, Scandal, Life Is

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