How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from All the President's Men.
Quote #4
DAHLBERG: I'm a proper citizen. What I do is proper. […] I've just been through a terrible ordeal. My neighbor's wife has been kidnapped.
This sounds like one of many BS excuses people give Woodward and Bernstein, but it's actually true. Virginia Piper was kidnapped and ransomed for $1 million in $20 bills. That's a lot of bills. It was paid, the largest ransom in U.S. history. (Source)
Quote #5
SEGRETTI: I'm a lawyer. I'm a good lawyer. And I'll probably wind up going to jail and being disbarred. And I don't know what I did that was so goddamn awful. I'll tell you something. None of this was my idea.
No one seems to be concerned about the ramifications of the Watergate break-in to the country at large. Everyone is too preoccupied with covering their own butts, concerned what will happen to themselves.