When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.
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More Bob Woodward Quotes
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Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don’t know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.
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Lawyers didn’t seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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I don’t think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Nixon’s grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
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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.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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