Bob Woodward Quotes

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

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

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

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

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

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

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

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 with using unidentified sources.

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

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 you smell anything?

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

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

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

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.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

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

He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or that there was some obligation that the United States or the president had to expand democracy.

Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.

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