Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses… The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon. – Archibald Cox
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. – Sam Ervin
When youre a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. – Dick Houser
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
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country. – Eugene McCarthy
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. – Golda Meir
I gave em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, Id have done the same thing. – Richard Milhous Nixon
When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. – Richard Milhous Nixon
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over. – Richard Milhous Nixon
I hereby resign this office of president of the United States. – Richard Milhous Nixon
A man is not finished when hes defeated; hes finished when he quits. – Richard Milhous Nixon
I have impeached myself by resigning. – Richard Milhous Nixon
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. – Richard Milhous Nixon
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
