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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Bob Woodward

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
BOB WOODWARD

Government Need Powerful Support
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe May Stories
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
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Confused Media Thinking
[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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Believe Issues People
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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Government Motherhood Play
I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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Arguing Reviews Thinking
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
Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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Information Use Views
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
The biggest rap on me is that I don’t find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It’s not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
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Couple Rap Unique
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
I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they’ve got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case – why are we here, what is our message, how to connect to the real world.
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Party Real Thinking
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’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.
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College Names Stories
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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Character Giving Thinking

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