Bob Woodward Quotes
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I don't believe you on the 'Jimmy' story. No, I don't, and I'm going to prove it if it's the last thing I do.
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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.
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People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
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I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.
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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
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There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
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Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
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The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
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When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
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I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.
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I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
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Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
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Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
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Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
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I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.