Bob Woodward Quotes - Page 2

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

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.

I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not...

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

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 just the tip of the iceberg.

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

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 to Carl and myself.

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 would have escaped.

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, I, or the Washington Post caused.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.