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If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it’s really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

Bob Woodward

If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it’s really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
BOB WOODWARD

Important Needs Risk
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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Issues Politics Vote
They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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Government Need Powerful Support
Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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Design Done Management
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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Believe Independent Work
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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Iceberg Map Scandal Tip
We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Media Needs Police
I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Believe Patience Television
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?
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People Running Smell
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
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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Information Tape Trying
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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Confused Media Thinking
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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Air Believe Views
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon’s numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
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Criminals Law Presidential
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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Editors Names Source
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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Hands Opportunity People

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If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it’s really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

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