If you are going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.
Richard Nixon 16/04/1973
To John Dean on Watergate
Category: Lies & Lieing, Watergate
If this thing ever blows, then we are in a cover-up situation.
John Dean 20/03/1973
Category: Watergate
The fine hand of the Kennedys is behind this whole hearing.
Richard Nixon 28/02/1973
On the Watergate hearings.
Category: Watergate
We have a cancer close to the Presidency that is growing.
John Dean 20/03/1973
On Watergate
Category: Watergate
Well, there goes the Presidency.
Richard Nixon 07/1974
To Al Haig after a conversation with George Wallace.
Category: Presidency, The US (office of), Watergate
Who is to blame? I will not place the blame on subordinates - on those people whose zeal exceeded their judgment, and who may have done wrong in a casue they deeply believed to be right. In any organisation, the man at the top must bear the responsibility. That responsibility, therefore, belongs here, in this office.
Richard Nixon 30/04/1973
Category: Watergate
I looked at my calendar this morning...It showed exactly 1,361 days remaining in my term.
Richard Nixon 30/04/1973
Category: Watergate
I condemn any attempts to cover up in this case, no matter hwo is involved.
Richard Nixon 17/04/1973
Category: Watergate
Unless a President can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Richard Nixon 29/04/1974
Annoucning he would turn 1200 pages of edited transcripts to the House Judiciary Commiteee investigating Watergate.
Category: Watergate
I am convinced that we are going to make it the whole road and put this thing in the funny pages of the history books.
John Dean 28/02/1973
On Watergate
Category: Watergate
This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.
Gerald Ford 08/1974
Category: Watergate
