Bob Woodward

Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.

— Bob Woodward

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

— Bob Woodward

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

— Bob Woodward

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

— Bob Woodward

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

— Bob Woodward

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

— Bob Woodward

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

— Bob Woodward

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

— Bob Woodward

“Bob and I [Carl Bernstein]embraced and held each other briefly. There was a whole lifetime of emotions and journalism in this moment.”

— Bob Woodward

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

— Bob Woodward

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

— Bob Woodward

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

— Bob Woodward

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

— Bob Woodward

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be…

— Bob Woodward

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

— Bob Woodward

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you…

— Bob Woodward

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the…

— Bob Woodward

“For those of you who were critical that nobody paid enough attention to the generals at the beginning of the war, has…

— Bob Woodward

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand…

— Bob Woodward

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where…

— Bob Woodward

“Today's internet bloggers and television's talking heads don't have that [a partnership]. No safety net. No brakes. No one there to question,…

— Bob Woodward

“Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which…

— Bob Woodward

I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance.…

— Bob Woodward

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a…

— Bob Woodward

“He never really voice pure, raw outrage to me about Watergate or what it represented. The crimes and abuses were background music.…

— Bob Woodward

“Maybe that would be less crucial under Obama, Podesta thought, because Obama's approach was so intellectual. He compared Obama to Spock from…

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“The reporter had to set his or her own course, had to push back against editors at times, to roam and be…

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“I'm done doing this!' Obama said, finally erupting. 'We've all agreed on a plan. And we're all going to stick to that…

— Bob Woodward

“During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, the United States could not lose…

— Bob Woodward

“Almost everything about Afghanistan was troubling Mullen. As Obama was giving intense focus on the war, Mullen was feeling more personal responsibility.…

— Bob Woodward

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

— Bob Woodward

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

— Bob Woodward

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

— Bob Woodward

We need to police ourselves in the media.

— Bob Woodward

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

— Bob Woodward

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

— Bob Woodward

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

— Bob Woodward

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

— Bob Woodward

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

— Bob Woodward

I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.

— Bob Woodward