Watergate Quotes

“I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.”

“The success of the Watergate investigation was based on a very simple premise: follow the money.”

“What did the President know and when did he know it?”

“What did the president know and when did he know it?”

“This was a cover-up that went to the very top.”

“I just hope to God that we're right.”

“We had a mandate from the Senate to get to the bottom of it, and that's what we were going to do.”

“I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.”

“Watergate was a moral crisis. It was a crisis of the Constitution.”

“If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen of the United States.”

“I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War... I see no redeeming features in Watergate.”

“Follow the money.”

“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”

“There can be no whitewash at the White House.”

“I was not in any way involved in the Watergate break-in, the planning of it, the authorization of it, the implementation of it, or the reporting of it.”

“I have stated that I am not involved in any cover-up. I am not.”

“Now, on the investigation, you know, the damn thing is going to come out pretty soon.”

“This is one of those things that's going to go all the way to the top.”

“I was just a foot soldier.”

“I'd do it again for my president.”