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• Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

  Ben Bradlee

  Tape, Faces, Graves

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• 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.

  Seymour Hersh

  Talking, Law, White

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

  Dexter Scott King

  Government, Tape, Paper

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• Why does The Smartest Woman in the World [Hillary Clinton], who could carve her own career, who was on the Watergate committee - and got thrown off of it, by the way, for wanting to deny Richard Nixon his constitutional rights.How does a woman who has become a fixture in northeastern liberal politics find herself in the backwoods of Arkansas?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Careers, Rights, World

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

  Tony Campolo

  America, People, Might

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• Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

  Conrad Black

  War, Party, Cutting

  Conrad Black (2016). “Backward Glances: People and Events from Inside and Out”, p.230, Signal

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• 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.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Loss, Oil, Scandal

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• 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.

  Daniel Fried

  Believe, Order, Russia

  Source: www.politico.com

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• To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Compare, Travesty

  "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Swag, Numbers, Literature

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

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• There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

  Bob Woodward

  Book, Impact, Aftermath

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

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• After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

  David Talbot

  Change, College, Sound

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• No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused those men to maintain to their dying whispers that Jesus is alive and is Lord. Two thousand years later, nothing less than the power of the risen Christ could inspire Christians around the world to remain faithful-despite prison, torture, and death.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

  Bob Woodward

  Cities, Literature, Desks

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

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• The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

  Bob Woodward

  Couple, Rap, Unique

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• I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Believe, Brezhnev

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• 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.

  Helen Thomas

  Gun, White, June

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• In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

  Jerry Saltz

  Mean, Artist, America

  "Great Artists Steal". nymag.com. May 10, 2009.

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• It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Struggle, Reality, Swag

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• When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dog, Suffering, Patents

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• This is a world that's big enough for everyone. I like that message in that comes out of John Lasseter, and it comes out Pixar, it comes out of the Apple, Google, the Ben and Jerry's thing. These are American companies that send that message around that is good, that is healthy. And everyone goes, "That's the America I always believed in before Watergate."

  Eddie Izzard

  Apples, America, Healthy

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• I remember when I was being told about Watergate, and I thought, "Oh, America is not what I think America is." But America is what I think it is. It's just that it's two bits of it, and I don't go with the Republican bit of it. I go more with the Democratic bit.

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Two, America

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• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  J. G. Ballard

  Running, Dream, America

  Metaphors, No. 7, 1983.

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• 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

  Philosophy, Moving, Political

  "Michael Sandel: This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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