Watergate Quotes

“As they walked back, Liddy said, “If someone wants to shoot me … just tell me what corner to stand on.” Dean, startled, replied, “I don’t think we’ve gotten there yet, Gordon.”
― Fred Emery, Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon

“The suffix “-gate” now routinely connotes government cover-up and almost invariably the corruption of power. But this, notwithstanding Iran-, Iraq-, and now Whitewater-, is still the mother of all “gates.”
― Fred Emery, Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon