Bob Woodward Quotes

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Bob Woodward

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 26, 1943

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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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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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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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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Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

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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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Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

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I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

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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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Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

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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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I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

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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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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 don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

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I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

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Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

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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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