The 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.
BOB WOODWARDI believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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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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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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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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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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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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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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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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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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