"The failure of the system to deal quickly……" — Bob Woodward
"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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73 Quotes by Bob Woodward
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In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign…
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Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'
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People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that…
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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either…
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Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also…
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...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.
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If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say…
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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…
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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
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It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the…
— Alan K. Simpson
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Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a…
— Vladimir Putin
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Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of…
— Milton Friedman
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The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics…
— Vinton Cerf
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs…
— Bertrand Russell
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That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the…
— Fran Lebowitz
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The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to…
— Jared Diamond
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