Bobby Ray Inman Quotes

I’m positive that the President is innocent of any involvement in Watergate

I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

As I watched some of the Watergate hearings I kept asking myself what all these people—[John] Dean and others—were doing there in the first place. Was there really an honest job that needed doing?

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

Comey has left a trail of suspicious activities in his wake.

My job is to not take for granted when somebody says, 'Oh, this is all just a made-up, phony scandal,' or, 'What this person did put the U.S. government at risk.'

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

We are all the President's men.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.