I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.
— John Dean
Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
— Bob Woodward
I am not a crook.
— Richard M. Nixon
What was Watergate? A little bugging!
— Richard M. Nixon
I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.