"Now, the President may be right in how he reads the Constitution, but he may also be wrong. And if he is wrong, who is there to tell him so? And if there is no one, the President, of course, is free to pursue his course of erroneous interpretations. What then becomes of our constitutional form of government? . . . This nation’s constitutional form of government is in serious jeopardy if the President, any President, is to say that the Constitution means what he says it does and that there is no one, not even the Supreme Court, to tell him otherwise. "

Leon Jaworski | Special Prosecutor

"(The edited transcripts of the secret tapes) will at last, once and for all, show that what I knew and what I did with regard to the Watergate break-in and cover-up were just as I have described them to you from the beginning."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"I can say categorically that his investigation indicates that no one on the White House staff...presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident. What really hurts in matters of this sort is not the fact that they occur...What really hurts is if you try to cover it up."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"Jesus...Katie Graham's gonna get her (expletive) caught in a big fat wringer if that's published. Good Christ!...we're going to do a story on all of you"

John Mitchell | Former Attorney General and Nixon's Campaign Manager

"I'm not the press's favorite pin-up boy. If it hadn't been Watergate, there would probably have been something else."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"[When asked why he didn't throw Liddy out immediately] In hindsight I not only should have thrown him out of the office, I should have thrown him out of the window."

John Mitchell | Former Attorney General and Nixon's Campaign Manager

"There is a way to untie the Watergate knot."

Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) | Associate Director of the FBI

"I know it violates the sensibilities of the innocent and tender-minded, but in the real world you sometimes have to employ extreme and extralegal methods to preserve the very system whos laws you're violating. "

G Gordon Liddy | Watergate Conspirator

"They’re gonna beat the (expletive) out of some of these people."

Bob Haldeman | White House Chief of Staff

"I'm not going to comment from the White House on a third-rate burglary attempt."

Ron Ziegler | White Press Secretary

"The White House has had no involvement whatever in this particular incident."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"[Regarding payoffs for the Watergate burglars) You could get a million dollars, and you could get it in cash. I know where it could be gotten."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"Always remember, others may hate you — but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. "

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"I think that there's no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we've got. We have a cancer within—close to the presidency, that's growing. It's growing daily. It's compounding. "

John Dean | President's Special Counsel

"[To Charles Colson] The cover up is the main ingredient."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"It doesn’t have an on-and-off switch."

Alexander Butterfield | Deputy Chief of Staff

"The flood is coming."

Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) | Associate Director of the FBI

"We stand by our story."

Ben Bradlee | Executive Editor of The Washington Post

"[Regarding the Washington Post] They don't realize how rough I can play."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"Good God! (Upon hearing his name was found in the address book of a Watergate burglar)"

Howard Hunt | Watergate Conspirator

"The Post story is not only fiction but a collection of absurdities."

Response by the Committee to Re-Elect the President

"Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?"

Fred Thompson | Senate Counsel

"The central question at this point is simply put. What the did the President know, and when did he know it?"

Howard Baker | Senator

"I don't respect the type of shabby journalism that is being practiced by the Washington Post."

Ron Ziegler | White House Press Secretary

"[To Bob Woodard and Carl Bernstein] Nobody is paying any attention to what you're writing."

Hugh Scott | Republican Leader of the Senate

"...on the investigation, you know, the Democratic break-in thing, we're back in the problem area because the FBI is not under control because Gray doesn't exactly know how to control them."

Bob Haldeman | White House Chief of Staff

"[Regarding Nixon's claim of executive privilege] That is not executive privilege. That is executive poppycock"

Sam Ervin | Head of Senate Investigative Committee

"The time has come to get Watergate behind us and to get on with the business of America."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"One year of Watergate is enough."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"The sources of the Washington Post are a fountain of misinformation."

Response by the Committee to Re-Elect the President

"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."

Gerald Ford | President of the United States

"[To the President's Men] I want you all to stonewall, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up or anything else, if it'll save it, save the plan. That's the whole point."

Richard Nixon | President of the United States

"The President will not quit, even if hell freezes over-no matter what."

Ken Clawson | White House Director of Communications