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.
BOB WOODWARDThe 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.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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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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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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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.
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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.
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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 give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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[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.
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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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