#watergate

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#american public #anything #because #before #believe

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#watergate

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out. ↗

— Edward Klein

#bob #did #his #how #keep

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#french #scandal #watergate #were

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 in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#both sides #civil #civil war #country #displayed

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#become #check #confirm #days #dogma

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

#absolutely #again #before #constitution #during