We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
BOB WOODWARDWatergate 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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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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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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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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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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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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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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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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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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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.
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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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I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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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.
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