I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
BOB WOODWARD…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
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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.
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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they’ve got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case – why are we here, what is our message, how to connect to the real world.
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Lawyers didn’t seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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.
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I don’t think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon’s numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
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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.
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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it’s generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
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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 long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they’re not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
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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.
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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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