1. “I am not a crook.”
2. “There must be no whitewash at the White House.”
3. “One year of Watergate is enough.”
4. “How much money do you need?” Nixon asked. John Dean: “I would say these people are going to cost a million dollars over the next two years.” Nixon: “We could get that … you could get a million dollars. And you could get it in cash. I, I know where it could be gotten–” Dean: “Uh-uh.” Nixon: “I mean, it’s not easy but it could be done.”
5. “I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover-up, or anything else, if it’ll save it, save the plan.”
6. “Play it rough. That’s the way they’re going to play it and that’s the way we are going to play it.”
7.”I’ll pardon the bastards.”
8. “What really hurts in matters of this sort is not the fact that they occur, because overzealous people in campaigns do things that are wrong,. What really hurts is if you try to cover it up.”
9.”The arts, you know, they’re Jews, they’re left wing. In other words, stay away.”
10. “Give ’em an hors d’oeuvre and maybe they won’t come back for the main course.”
11. “You don’t know how to lie,” Nixon told a political associate. “If you can’t lie, you’ll never go anywhere.”
12. “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”