John Dean Quotes & Sayings

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions. — John Dean

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates. — John Dean

discussing facts or culpability in the matter because the convictions are still on appeal. But I have been repeatedly asked why Sylvia did not just simply run away. I would suggest that by the time Sylvia told her sister she knew she was dying, she had reached profound apathy — John Dean

Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy. — John Dean

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. — John Dean

of thing. One morning, Garry turned — John Dean

As [William] Valentiner noted in his uncompleted memoirs Remembering Artists, [Diego] Rivera's [Detroit Industry] murals rooted the Detroit Institute of Arts to the many-faceted jewel of its central court because of the harmonious, fertile relationship between "the industrialist" and "the artist." Rivera remarked to Valentiner how especially struck he was that "Edsel had none of the characteristics of the exploiting capitalist, that he had the simplicity and directness of a workman in his won factories and was like one of the best of them." Their relationship was like the murals themselves, a superb expression of pluralism, toleration, and empathy for the other, and of a cosmopolitan sense of all the Americas, not just of the United States of America or Detroit alone. — John Dean

I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate. — John Dean

Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it. — John Dean

There's a cancer on the presidency. — John Dean

The evidence is overwhelming that George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have engaged in deceit and deception over going to war in Iraq. This is an impeachable offense. — John Dean

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal. — John Dean

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it. — John Dean

I've been surfing so many years and it's a pretty strong part of my life so I'm not gonna give that up. — John Dean

We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort. — John Dean

Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the poll numbers, people knew Nixon was deeply involved in Watergate and stayed with him for a long time. It's a natural tendency. — John Dean