Cynthia McKinney Quotes

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

It's hard to tell whether [Attorney General] Janet Reno is engaged in a cover-up or she's merely incompetent.

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

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.

I ordered that they use any means necessary, including illegal means, to accomplish this goal. . . . The president of the United States can never admit that.

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?

Political scandal has become devalued. There are so many of them.

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

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.

Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public's interests. But when the claims appear to hide wrongdoing, they begin to curdle.

In my brief, home affairs, we have witnessed ministers issue countless dodgy dossiers, fiddle figures and fudge facts.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.