Quotes by Bob Woodward - Page 2

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?
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Running
Garbage
People
Smell
Poll
Pour
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Literature
Magnitude
Numbers
Swag
Watergate
Conspiracies
Leaked
None
Suspect
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Aftermath
Book
Impact
Watergate
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Confused
Media
Thinking
Rightly
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Distance
Long
Practice
Believers
Conservatives
Democrats
Republicans
Liberals
Reporting
True Believers
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Sad
Government
Branches
Dramatic
Interaction
Morality
Motherhood
Play
Study
Watergate
Ending
Model
Powers
Provides
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Business
People
Pollution
Rumor
Best Business People
Devastating
Embellish
Eradicated
Rumors
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Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Inspirational
Morning
Love Is
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Work
Believe
Congress
Executive Branch
Independent
Judiciary
Prosecutor
Watergate
Work Believe I Believe
Branch
Executive
Particularly
System
Ultimately
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Apology
Country
Forgiving
Mistake
Admitted
Apologized
Error
Grand
Nixon
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Truth
Clean
Finals
Lying
Refusal
Attributable
Nixon
Quickly
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Important
Needs
Risk
Willing
Associated
Newspaper
Sources
Unidentified
Verified
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Air
Believe
Careful
Permanent
Print
Rushing
Thinking
Truce
Willing
Believe Will I Believe
Believe I Believe Will
Count
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Information
Providing
Tape
Trying
Watergate
Leaking
Nixon
Recently
Tapes
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Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Criminals
Law
Presidential
Rule Of Law
Scorn
Attempts
Criminal
Held
In Fact
Nixon
Numerous
Passes
Powers
Rule
Showing
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Consistent
Iceberg
Maps
Scandal
Source
Throat
Tip Of The Iceberg
Watergate
Deep
Map
Message
Provided
Road
Road Map
Tip
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Couple
Rap
Unique
Caused
Me Find Something
Washington
Post
Washington Post
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Wisdom
Batting
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
People
Stories
Analyst
Reported
Reputations
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Achievement
Foreign Affairs
Literature
President
Remembered
Watergate
Achievements
Affairs
Foreign
List
Nixon
Suspect
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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
War
Aggressive
Attempting
Engaged
Memories
Resigned
Watergate
Wipe
Wiping Out
Won
Happily
Largely
Memory
Nixon
Stain
Tapes
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Colleagues
College
Names
New Information
Presentation
Stories
Report
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Cover Ups
Criminals
Interesting
Lied
Watergate
Understand
Nearly
Cover-Up
Criminal
Fact
Richard
Making
Nixon
Richard Nixon
Step
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[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Believe
Issues
People
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Clinton
Reporters
Touch
Believes
Corps
Washington
Dealing
Inconceivable
Press
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I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they've got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case - why are we here, what is our message, how to connect to the real world.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Party
Real
Thinking
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Fighting
Scream
Smart
Thinking
Versus
Issue
Journalists
Reporting
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Dollars
Grand Jury
Jury
Lying
Million Dollars
Tape
Voice
Burglar
Lie
Grand
Million
Nixon
Recordings
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I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Book
Caught
Letterman
Literature
Littles
David
David Letterman
Guard
Journalists
Recently
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Power
Illegal
Illegal Activities
Numbers
Willing
Activities
Enemies
Nixon
Scores
Settle
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Air
Authenticity
Believe
Believer
First Amendment
Questioning
Silent
Suggestions
Views
Believe Me I Believe
Amendment
Believe I Believe Me
Coup
Washington
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I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Disappointment
People
Thinking
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I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Asking
Book
Calling
Dinner
Figures
Hated
Long
Projects
Uncomfortable
Me Long Doing
Bone
Democrats
Republicans
Republicans And Democrats
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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.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
Fear
Air
Night
Phones
Return
Great Night People
Announced
Washington
Reporter
Dreaded
Phone
Phone Call
Post
Telephone
Telephone Number
Washington Post
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He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or that there was some obligation that the United States or the president had to expand democracy.
Bob Woodward / Journalist
War
Iraq
Mass Destruction
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