- Mark Felt: The White House is packing all its crimes in separate little boxes. Watergate, the spying, the ugliness, the rot. Each thing in a different box so that no one can put it together, so that no one sees it's all connected. And no one will care, but it's all the same big thing.
- Sandy Smith: And Watergate? Just the gateway.
- Bob Woodward: We're lost in detail.
- Mark Felt: That's their plan. They want everyone confused. Confusion is control. The truth could ruin the administration.
- Mark Felt: You have to destroy anything that is sick beyond repair to rescue it from its agony and the agony it causes everyone else.
- Mark Felt: There's a price to pay for what we do, Mr. Miller. There's a price to pay for what we become. We all pay it, one way or another.