Best Bob Woodward Sayings
- 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… Culture
- Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government. Accountability
- Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. Cast
- We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure. Another Watergate
- 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. Believe
- 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… Burglary
- 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… Air
- 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… Carl
- 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… Been
- 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… Bit
- 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… Analyst
- 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… Admitted
- 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… Aftermath
- 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… All
- Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it. Anyone
- 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… Achievements
- 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… Bit
- We need to police ourselves in the media. Media
- The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals. Deals
- 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… Absolutely
- 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… All
- 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… Associated
- 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,… Bernstein