Bob Woodward Quotes by Carl Bernstein

9 Bob Woodward quotes by Carl Bernstein

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Carl Bernstein’s perspective on his famed partner offers a quick glimpse into their dynamic. In nine short lines you’ll see Woodward through Bernstein’s eyes.

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“Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less…

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“Woodward, a registered Republican, did not vote. He couldn't decide whether he was more uneasy with the disorganization and naïve idealism of…

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“Hardly unaware of his image, Bradlee even cultivated it. He delighted in displaying his street savvy, telling a reporter to get his…

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“It was 9:30 P.M., just an hour from deadline for the second edition. Woodward began typing: A $25,000 cashier's check, apparently earmarked…

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“Until the August 1 story about the Dahlberg check, the working relationship between Bernstein and Woodward was more competitive than anything else.…

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“The managing editor shared Bernstein's fondness for doping things out on the basis of sketchy information. At the same time, he was…

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“But you're absolutely sure we're right?' The question carried an intensity absent from the previous conversation. 'I remember talking with Henry Kissinger,'…

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“Deep Throat stamped his foot. 'A conspiracy like this...a conspiracy investigation...the rope has to tighten slowly around everyone's neck. You build convincingly…

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“Back at the office, Woodward went to the rear of the newsroom to call Deep Throat. Bernstein wished he had a source…

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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

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The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often…

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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is…

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“The people of the United States are entitled to assume that their President is telling the truth. The pattern of misrepresentation and half-truths that…

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“The August 1 story had carried their joint byline; the day afterward, Woodward asked Sussman if Bernstein's name could appear with his on the…

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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and…

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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life…

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“The managing editor shared Bernstein's fondness for doping things out on the basis of sketchy information. At the same time, he was cautious about…

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Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our…

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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

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“They walked across 15th Street to the Madison Hotel's Montpelier Room, an opulent French restaurant. Bradlee asked for a corner table, and began the…

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