Gerald R. Ford Quotes

The Reagan people want four more years, but the way they're going some of them will get ten to twenty.

Justin Trudeau tries to say that Canada is back. I say the Liberals are back - back to ignoring the rules and abusing the privileges of power.

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

We can be lied to only so many times. The best thing that he [President Nixon] can do for the country is to get the hell out of the White House and get out this afternoon.

Never in the history of the United States has a state legislature attempted to be the final arbiter of a Presidential election. It’s an insurance policy for George W. Bush. It’s over the line for the Governor to use the state legislature as an arm of the Bush campaign.

I loathe the professional politician. I have never been a regular. I have fought political machines and party politics at every opportunity.

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

Frankly, what we need to be looking at is whether this election was rigged by Donald Trump and his buddy Vladimir Putin.

In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it works the exact same way.

I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.

The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.

The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

The moment we cross over that divide [just before the election making public the secret information that Nixon had been sabotaging Vietnam Peace Talks], we are in a different kind of society.

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

You know you have a problem in American politics when they're making 'House of Cards' look normal.

Holder's Justice Department is not the shield of justice, it has become the shield for Obama's political transgressions.

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

I come from a state where four governors have gone to jail since I've been alive. Two of my last four predecessors in this seat went to jail or are going to jail.