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Bob Woodward

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?
BOB WOODWARD

People Running Smell
I’m not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn’t know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
BOB WOODWARD

College Names Stories
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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Believe May Stories
They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
BOB WOODWARD

Government Need Powerful Support
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Information Tape Trying
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Distance Long Practice
[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.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe Issues People
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe Independent Work
…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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Division Military Team
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
BOB WOODWARD

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

Giving Literature Money
Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
BOB WOODWARD

Information Use Views
We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Lifetime Literature Watergate
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Asking Book Long
I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe Patience Television
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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Lawyer Literature Stories

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