When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.
BOB WOODWARDWe’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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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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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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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 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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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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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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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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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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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