John Dean Quotes

#1. of thing. One morning, Garry turned

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#2. 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.

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#3. Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

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#4. discussing facts or culpability in the matter because the convictions are still on appeal. But I have been repeatedly asked why Sylvia did not just simply run away. I would suggest that by the time Sylvia told her sister she knew she was dying, she had reached profound apathy

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#5. I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

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#6. Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

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#7. There's a cancer on the presidency.

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#8. The evidence is overwhelming that George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have engaged in deceit and deception over going to war in Iraq. This is an impeachable offense.

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#9. Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

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#10. We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.

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#11. I've been surfing so many years and it's a pretty strong part of my life so I'm not gonna give that up.

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#12. History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

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#13. I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.

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#14. 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.

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#15. Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.

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