Bob Woodward Quotes

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Bob Woodward

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 26, 1943

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

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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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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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We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

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The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

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When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

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I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

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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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It was accountability that Nixon feared.

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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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The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

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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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Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

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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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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

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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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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

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Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

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If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

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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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