Bob Woodward Quotes
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
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American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
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If you think that there are actually covers that we haven't done on 'Glee' that I could then put on an album... We've done everything! Pretty soon we're just going to have to start doing opera and stuff on the show.
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I have a certain way of thinking where I see something, and I know that I want it and I make up my mind - and that's pretty much all there is to it. It was like, This is what I want to do, and I'm going, and everything's going to work out. I'm going to be an actress. There was no way around it.
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During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.
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It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
