Quotes about Presidential Cover-up

Bob Woodward

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Leonid Brezhnev

What is this "Watergate?

The Russian leadership thought little of it and assumed that it had no consequences. An American Communist official in the Kremlin, Morris Childs, told them that Nixon might actually lose his job over Watergate. Childs was actually an FBI spy. See his quote.

Richard Painter

I don't believe President Nixon ordered a break-in, but people working for him were doing it. And then that dragged the president in. And then you have the cover-up. And before you know it, the president's gone.

Carlos Lozada

During presidential scandals, the White House peddles the illusion that the president and top aides are undistracted, that the nation's business remains foremost in their minds, when in fact the political challenges threaten to overpower all else.

Nancy Gibbs

We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.

Bob Woodward

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

Richard Helms

Nobody wants to embarrass a President of the United States by discussing the assassination of foreign leaders in his presence. I just think we all had the feeling that we were hired ... to keep those things out of the Oval Office.

This remarkable quotation illustrated a CIA director who took the position that his agency should assassinate foreign leaders who are enemies without discussing the prospect or getting the specific permission of the President of the United States.

Bo Gritz

I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality.

Matthew Whitaker

The truth is there was no collusion with the Russians and the Trump campaign.

Gore Vidal

I never thought I would see a President of the United States say on television that “I am not a crook.” The worst part of it was, Nixon couldn’t even look the camera in the eye.

Nixon however turned out to be very dishonest with the Watergate scandal allowing the public to see and hear what Nixon was really like. He was the only American President who resigned, as he did that to save himself from being impeached and tried for various fenonies he committed. Vidal had his number. However, Nixon was not a crook in the usual sense of the word. His violations of law and ethics did not enrich him fiscally. His corruption was the drive and mania for power and control.

Presidential Cover-up Quotes