Bob Woodward Quotes
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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
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Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
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There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
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I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
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The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
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Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
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It was accountability that Nixon feared.
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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
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Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
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I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
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There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
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'It's all over,' he said to Cooke. 'You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can show you point by point how you concocted it.'
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I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
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The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
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I think that the decision to nominate the story for a Pulitzer is of minimal consequence. I also think that it won is of little consequence. It is a brilliant story — fake and fraud that it is.
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When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
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A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.