Watergate Quotes
Reflections shaped by a defining political scandal.
These quotes describe Watergate as a formative political moment, one that shaped a speaker's broader outlook and is later summarized as involving no dead bodies despite its gravity. Explore related history-adjacent sayings under About quotes.
The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency.
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About Quotes
Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn't have the KGB do the Watergate job.
The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
Administration Quotes
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after 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.
After Quotes
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
