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I think everything is on the table, and this January 6 committee has done a pretty good job of showing the road map and the possibilities that existed, we have never seen anything like this in this country. Watergate pales in comparison. – Doug Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is no different than Watergate, except a much more important location, it is the same theft—just modern day. – Fifth Avenue	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Another crime is being committed—and that's the crime of the media, the media is absolutely not—they refuse to talk about it and yet it is 10 times bigger than Watergate. – Fifth Avenue	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution, in a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Everywhere we go, people tell us that this is the most important investigation they can remember at least since the Watergate investigation. So there's a high burden of hope being placed upon us. it's incredibly sobering. – Elaine Luria	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is a tremendous sense of responsibility, everywhere we go, people tell us that this is the most important investigation they can remember at least since the Watergate investigation. So there's a high burden of hope being placed upon us. – Jamie Raskin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The FEC was created back in 1974 in the wake of Watergate. That was a period during which our Democratic colleagues had overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate, they could have crafted the FEC any way they chose to. But they realized that it ought to be evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. It was broad bipartisan understanding that the new panel needed to be beyond reproach. That's why it was built with an even-numbered membership. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Pat Nixon is the most recent example I can think of of a first lady who compares at all to Melania Trump, as Watergate raged on, Pat Nixon spent lots of time sequestered in her room alone in the Residence. Butlers brought her breakfast and often she would only drink the coffee. People around her grew concerned about her health because it was obvious that Watergate was taking a toll and she was losing weight. – Kate Andersen	Found on CNN 3 years ago
As Watergate raged on, Pat Nixon spent lots of time sequestered in her room alone in the Residence. Butlers brought her breakfast and often she would only drink the coffee. People around her grew concerned about her health because it was obvious that Watergate was taking a toll and she was losing weight. – Kate Andersen	Found on CNN 3 years ago
What happened after the first presidential debate is every Senate race saw a 3 - to 4-point drop [ for Republican candidates ] across the board, so campaigns are panicking and it's the first time in a long while that they are being outraised. The potential is there to lose not only the presidency but the Senate as well... and to see the kind of wipeout we haven't an experienced since the post-Watergate year of 1974. – Ed Rollins	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Richard Nixon was Richard Nixon, and Richard Nixon was driven out of office by the Republican Party. Richard Nixon people used to say no one died at Watergate, and there's a certain truth to that. Two hundred thousand people have died at this, and Trump, by taking remedial action by being honest with the American people, which I — he just didn't understand, does not understand the people he leads. – Bob Woodward	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Almost all 200 of our stories about Watergate were based on anonymous sourcing. – Jeffrey Goldberg	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is wide in scope. It's almost every big decision that's coming through the Justice Department now has to be sent through the The White House and checked out with the president and then do the President's bidding. We've never -- we didn't see that in Watergate, this is why this is more sinister. – David Gergen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The president -- President Nixon's misconduct related to trying to use the levers of government to hide the Watergate burglary... President Trump misconduct had to do with trying to throw the election but at least it didn't involve involving other foreign nations, if you take a look at the -- what the founding fathers were concerned about, it was the interference by foreign governments in our political system that was one of the gravest concerns. Nixon's behavior didn't fall into that range. So in that way, this conduct is more serious. – Zoe Lofgren	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are some signs this is wearing thin for the American people and that they are actually attending to the content of the investigations, once the public hearings begin the public will focus on the actual charges. That is what happened with President Richard Nixon in 1974 in the Watergate hearings. – Claire Finkelstein	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Now I will say this : The present circumstances are also very different than Watergate and I think for a very fundamental reason, and that is in Watergate it wasn't that the existence of tapes made all the difference, house Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff know it was certainly important, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff know, in this impeachment proceeding, we have the existence of the call record, but I don't think that's really what differentiates then from now. I think the main difference is The President now has Fox prime time and that allows The President supporters to live in this alternative fact world. – House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Pat Nixon was completely in the bunker during Watergate, which dragged on for two years. She stopped reading the newspapers at the height of the barrage and blamed others, in this case Republicans, for trying to bring her husband down, at one point the West Wing staff cut off her newspapers in an effort to shield her from the headlines. But she knew exactly what was going on and she defended her husband until the end. – Kate Andersen Brower	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Like in Watergate, after more evidence gets out there ... you'll see more people of different political stripes start to support it. – Julian Castro	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The last time I appeared before your Committee was July 11, 1974, during the impeachment inquiry of Richard Nixon. Clearly, Im not here today as a fact witness, in many ways, the Mueller report is to President Trump, what the so-called Watergate roadmap was to President Richard Nixon. – John Dean	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I'm clearly not a fact witness, but I hope I can give them some context and show them how strikingly like Watergate what we're seeing now, and as reported in the Mueller report, is. So I've taken several examples from the Mueller report relating to obstruction of justice, which is their focus today and looked at those and made the comparisons. – John Dean	Found on CNN 4 years ago
In many ways the Mueller report is to President Trump what the so-called Watergate road map, officially titled the grand jury report... was to President Richard Nixon, stated a little differently, Robert Mueller has provided Judiciary Committee with a road map. – John Dean	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Because John Dean -- people didn't know who John Dean -- people was during Watergate, we do now. – Tom Arnold	Found on CNN 4 years ago
My point was about the party, what party takes a person who led the party to the greatest wins in The House since the Watergate and says,' We are going to cut your knees off,' and then says,' We want to nominate somebody who didn't win' ? The House wasn't about him. I admire what he did. The House's about our party that I don't admire. – Rahm Emanuel	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Michael Cohen pleads guilty're in a Watergate moment. Michael Cohen pleads guilty need bipartisanship now more than ever to protect the special counsel and to stop, and I must underscore stop, any consideration of pardons. – Richard Blumenthal	Found on CNN 5 years ago

I think everything is on the table, and this January 6 committee has done a pretty good job of showing the road map and the possibilities that existed, we have never seen anything like this in this country. Watergate pales in comparison.

– Doug Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is no different than Watergate, except a much more important location, it is the same theft—just modern day.

– Fifth Avenue

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Another crime is being committed—and that's the crime of the media, the media is absolutely not—they refuse to talk about it and yet it is 10 times bigger than Watergate.

– Fifth Avenue

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution, in a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everywhere we go, people tell us that this is the most important investigation they can remember at least since the Watergate investigation. So there's a high burden of hope being placed upon us. it's incredibly sobering.

– Elaine Luria

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is a tremendous sense of responsibility, everywhere we go, people tell us that this is the most important investigation they can remember at least since the Watergate investigation. So there's a high burden of hope being placed upon us.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The FEC was created back in 1974 in the wake of Watergate. That was a period during which our Democratic colleagues had overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate, they could have crafted the FEC any way they chose to. But they realized that it ought to be evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. It was broad bipartisan understanding that the new panel needed to be beyond reproach. That's why it was built with an even-numbered membership.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Pat Nixon is the most recent example I can think of of a first lady who compares at all to Melania Trump, as Watergate raged on, Pat Nixon spent lots of time sequestered in her room alone in the Residence. Butlers brought her breakfast and often she would only drink the coffee. People around her grew concerned about her health because it was obvious that Watergate was taking a toll and she was losing weight.

– Kate Andersen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As Watergate raged on, Pat Nixon spent lots of time sequestered in her room alone in the Residence. Butlers brought her breakfast and often she would only drink the coffee. People around her grew concerned about her health because it was obvious that Watergate was taking a toll and she was losing weight.

– Kate Andersen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What happened after the first presidential debate is every Senate race saw a 3 - to 4-point drop [ for Republican candidates ] across the board, so campaigns are panicking and it's the first time in a long while that they are being outraised. The potential is there to lose not only the presidency but the Senate as well... and to see the kind of wipeout we haven't an experienced since the post-Watergate year of 1974.

– Ed Rollins

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Richard Nixon was Richard Nixon, and Richard Nixon was driven out of office by the Republican Party. Richard Nixon people used to say no one died at Watergate, and there's a certain truth to that. Two hundred thousand people have died at this, and Trump, by taking remedial action by being honest with the American people, which I — he just didn't understand, does not understand the people he leads.

– Bob Woodward

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Almost all 200 of our stories about Watergate were based on anonymous sourcing.

– Jeffrey Goldberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is wide in scope. It's almost every big decision that's coming through the Justice Department now has to be sent through the The White House and checked out with the president and then do the President's bidding. We've never -- we didn't see that in Watergate, this is why this is more sinister.

– David Gergen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The president -- President Nixon's misconduct related to trying to use the levers of government to hide the Watergate burglary... President Trump misconduct had to do with trying to throw the election but at least it didn't involve involving other foreign nations, if you take a look at the -- what the founding fathers were concerned about, it was the interference by foreign governments in our political system that was one of the gravest concerns. Nixon's behavior didn't fall into that range. So in that way, this conduct is more serious.

– Zoe Lofgren

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There are some signs this is wearing thin for the American people and that they are actually attending to the content of the investigations, once the public hearings begin the public will focus on the actual charges. That is what happened with President Richard Nixon in 1974 in the Watergate hearings.

– Claire Finkelstein

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Now I will say this : The present circumstances are also very different than Watergate and I think for a very fundamental reason, and that is in Watergate it wasn't that the existence of tapes made all the difference, house Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff know it was certainly important, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff know, in this impeachment proceeding, we have the existence of the call record, but I don't think that's really what differentiates then from now. I think the main difference is The President now has Fox prime time and that allows The President supporters to live in this alternative fact world.

– House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Pat Nixon was completely in the bunker during Watergate, which dragged on for two years. She stopped reading the newspapers at the height of the barrage and blamed others, in this case Republicans, for trying to bring her husband down, at one point the West Wing staff cut off her newspapers in an effort to shield her from the headlines. But she knew exactly what was going on and she defended her husband until the end.

– Kate Andersen Brower

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Like in Watergate, after more evidence gets out there ... you'll see more people of different political stripes start to support it.

– Julian Castro

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The last time I appeared before your Committee was July 11, 1974, during the impeachment inquiry of Richard Nixon. Clearly, Im not here today as a fact witness, in many ways, the Mueller report is to President Trump, what the so-called Watergate roadmap was to President Richard Nixon.

– John Dean

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I'm clearly not a fact witness, but I hope I can give them some context and show them how strikingly like Watergate what we're seeing now, and as reported in the Mueller report, is. So I've taken several examples from the Mueller report relating to obstruction of justice, which is their focus today and looked at those and made the comparisons.

– John Dean

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In many ways the Mueller report is to President Trump what the so-called Watergate road map, officially titled the grand jury report... was to President Richard Nixon, stated a little differently, Robert Mueller has provided Judiciary Committee with a road map.

– John Dean

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Because John Dean -- people didn't know who John Dean -- people was during Watergate, we do now.

– Tom Arnold

Found on CNN
4 years ago

My point was about the party, what party takes a person who led the party to the greatest wins in The House since the Watergate and says,' We are going to cut your knees off,' and then says,' We want to nominate somebody who didn't win' ? The House wasn't about him. I admire what he did. The House's about our party that I don't admire.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Michael Cohen pleads guilty're in a Watergate moment. Michael Cohen pleads guilty need bipartisanship now more than ever to protect the special counsel and to stop, and I must underscore stop, any consideration of pardons.

– Richard Blumenthal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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