Daniel Burton Quotes

Clinton's a schmuck.

… a lying crook in the Presidency

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?

Bill Clinton is the most corrupt, the most amoral, the most despicable person I've ever seen in the presidency.

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.

You roll back the stones and you find the slithering things of the world of Richard Nixon.

Reveal Richard Nixon … lay him and his motives bare … destroy him in his shot for the Presidency.

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

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

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

There were no dead bodies in Watergate.

President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.

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.

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 was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.