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Bob Woodward

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.
BOB WOODWARD

Information Tape Trying
Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don’t know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.
BOB WOODWARD

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.
BOB WOODWARD

Party Real Thinking
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
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
BOB WOODWARD

Drama Quality Thinking
Nixon’s grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
BOB WOODWARD

Apology Country Mistake
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.
BOB WOODWARD

College Names Stories
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
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Book Jokes Literature Littles Serious
[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.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe Issues 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
I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
BOB WOODWARD

Literature Mind Source
I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe Patience Television
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
BOB WOODWARD

Giving Literature Money
…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
BOB WOODWARD

Division Military Team
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?
BOB WOODWARD

People Running Smell

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