Good work is always done in defiance of management.
BOB WOODWARDI give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
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Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don’t know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.
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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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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.
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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.
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I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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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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