Editors Quote by Bob Woodward

I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.

— W. Mark Felt

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

— Bob Woodward

Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.

— Anonymous

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

— Booth Tarkington

We wanted a name that people would remember and get pissed off about. Nothing too deep, believe me.

— Joe King

Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

— Bill Keller

Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

— Susanna Centlivre

It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story.

— Rebekah Brooks

Nobody in media and journalism knows more about 'deep state' than I do.

— Mike Cernovich

It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.

— John O'Donohue

What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

— Gregory Maguire

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

— George Herbert