Quotes About The Watergate Scandal

#1. 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

#2. The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

Pierre Salinger

#3. Some people seem to overestimate the amount of nonsense I am willing to accept from them.

Steve Maraboli

#4. 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

#5. I've got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I've got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Matthew McConaughey

#6. Anything worth having is never simple or easy, Gabby ...

J.B. McGee

#7. There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

Brad Henry

#8. It might be easy to make a decision, but dealing with the hardships it brings is anything but simple.

Christopher Mart

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

Bob Woodward

#10. O'Neill was perceptive enough to understand the country had a new leader that it wanted to believe in. After the tragedy of Dallas, after the quicksand of Vietnam, the scandal of Watergate, and the "malaise" of Jimmy Carter, it needed one.

Chris Matthews

#11. I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government.

Dave Brat

#12. he fought hard against corruption in all forms, especially with the Canal Ring (every scandal during this time seems to have the word "ring" attached to it, much like every scandal since Watergate has "gate" attached to it.)

Michael Rubbinaccio

#13. Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and commercial auditions in Los Angeles with my mom's help!

Megan Lee

#14. Religion, like Watergate, is a scandal that will not go away.

Dick Russell Peter Levenda

#15. Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

Jean Cocteau

#16. A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight and forty millions; nor is it the better for being guided by a dozen of persons of quality, who have betrayed their trust in order to obtain that power.

Edmund Burke

#17. 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

#18. There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.

Frederick Lenz

#19. I lose myself in her: her scent, her touch, and the taste of her. I will never get enough.

Amy A. Bartol