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[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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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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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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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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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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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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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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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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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.
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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 don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they’re not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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