I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
BOB WOODWARDEven now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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 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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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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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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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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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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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon’s tapes.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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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.
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