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Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
-Archibald Cox
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
-Sam Ervin
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When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.
-Dick Houser
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From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
-Leon Jaworski
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This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
-Eugene McCarthy
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
-Golda Meir
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I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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 Well, I'm not a crook.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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I have impeached myself by resigning.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Books about Watergate
