- Robert Redford: [On where he was during the Watergate hearings] I was in a dressing room, making the film "The Great Gatsby", and to keep yourself from going mad, you'd watch the hearings. And that was fine, because the hearings were so interesting, you couldn't stop.
- Carl Bernstein: Every day, Bob and I would go have a cup of coffee together in the morning, in a little vending machine room off the newsroom. And, on this particular day, not that long after the break-in, I put a dime in the coffee machine, which is what it cost then, and I literally felt this chill go down my neck, I mean literally-made my hair stick up, I think-and I turned to Woodward and I said, "Oh my God, this president is going to be impeached." And Woodward looked at me and he said, "Oh my God, you're right."
- Egil "Bud" Krogh: There was a real major breakdown in personal integrity, as well as organizational integrity, on the part of us that were given those assignments. It also requires you to ask the ethical questions: "Is this right?" "Is it respectful?" "Is it responsible?" "Is it fair?" We didn't ask any of those questions. And what we should've started with: "Is it legal?" We were so caught up in trying to serve the president's needs or desires that we did not ask those questions.
- John Dean: You know, to this day, I'm not quite sure when I entered the conspiracy to obstruct justice. That's one of the things I'm actually trying to figure out. When did I cross the line? When did I enter that illegal conspiracy? No question I went across it.
- Robert Redford: [narrating] Imagine a President getting away with that unfolding scandal in today's political environment.
- Tom Brokaw: [referring to the transition to Gerald Ford as President after Nixon resigned] We had this exceptionally peaceful transition of power at a very traumatic time in our lives.
- Carl Bernstein: The system had worked, including the role of the press, but really the idea that the system had worked in this amazing way that a criminal President had been forced to leave office, that the principle that nobody in this country is above the law, including the President of the United States.
- Richard Nixon: [in archive footage] Well when the President does it that means that it is not illegal.
- David Frost: The key to Nixon really is his dislocated relationship with truth.
- James Carville: You know that of course this sort of thing is going to happen again. And it's going to happen in a much, much bigger scale.
- Robert Redford: I don't remember exactly where I was or what I was doing the night Nixon resigned, but I remember the feeling: Relief.
- Rachel Maddow: I did not grow up with the memory of having seen it, obviously, but it was this omnipresent thing in the way that my mom talked about my childhood. Because, she was a young mother, home with a baby on the hip, and what she did for my infancy was feed me and watch Watergate.