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

  • Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.

    Gun   White   June  
  • No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.

    Pain   Regret   War  
  • I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

    Loss   Oil   Scandal  
    Source: www.teemingbrain.com
  • Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

    Issues   Politics   Vote  
  • Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.

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

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

  • 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: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
  • Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

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

    "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
  • Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

  • 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.

    Ideas   Majority   Noble  
  • 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.

  • Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

    Senior   Literature   Way  
    "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
  • I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

    "Michael Sandel: This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.
  • No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

    Leon Jaworski, Dick Schneider (1981). “Crossroads”, David C Cook
  • 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.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • 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.

  • Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys, we're not talking about the kind of common crimes that Nixon committed. I can't tell you whether they are technically breaking the law, but basically, the American government has been hijacked by neoconservatives. They are taking an awful lot of national security operations into the White House.

    Talking   Law   White  
    Source: www.progressive.org
  • Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

    Color   Black   World  
    "We, the Traitors". www.worldpress.org. March 28, 2003.
  • 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

    Thinking   Media   Mind  
  • Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.

    Jesus   Thinking   Church  
  • What was Watergate? A little bugging!

  • 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.

    "Readers recommend: songs about scandal" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2015.
  • Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

    Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)
  • This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

    People   Needs   Stories  
  • I believe the liberal international order is under assault from Russia, and from other authoritarian regimes, and it is being questioned from within the West by nationalists, by nativists, and by people who doubt our - doubt the values of the West. We've gone through periods like this before; in the '70s, after Vietnam and Watergate, and certainly in the '30s, when people thought liberal democracy was dead, and the future belonged either to the fascists or the communists.

    Believe   Order   Russia  
    Source: www.politico.com
  • I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

  • 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.

    Jesus   Truth   Powerful  
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