Bob Woodward Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• It was accountability that Nixon feared.

  Bob Woodward

  Accountability, Literature

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

• When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

  Bob Woodward

  Essence, Decision, Political

• We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

  Bob Woodward

  Literature, Lifetime, Watergate

  "Deja vu all over again". Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, May 15, 2013.

• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Work, Believe, Independent

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

• The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

  Bob Woodward

  Media, Literature, Journalism

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Interesting, Criminals, Cover Ups

• There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

  Bob Woodward

  Business, People, Rumor

• I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

  Bob Woodward

  Drama, Thinking, Quality

  "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. July 29, 1996.

• I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

  Bob Woodward

  Believe, Thinking, Air

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Truth, Lying, Finals

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Motherhood, Government, Play

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

• If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard."

  Bob Woodward

  Media, Literature, Politician

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

• People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

  Bob Woodward

  Stupid, Silly, Mean

• 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, Literature, Littles

• 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

  Risk, Important, Needs

• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Achievement, President, Literature

• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Couple, Rap, Unique

• The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

  Bob Woodward

  Literature, Trouble, Deals

• We need to police ourselves in the media.

  Bob Woodward

  Media, Police, Needs

• [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

  "Woodward, a Bush Tool? Remember How Clinton-Friendly He Was" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. October 1, 2006.

• I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not...

  Bob Woodward

  Mind, Literature, Source

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

• 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.

  Bob Woodward

  Book, Long, Asking

• The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

  Bob Woodward

  Power, Numbers, Illegal Activities

• A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

  Bob Woodward

  Government, Ties, Secret

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

• There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

  Bob Woodward

  Lying, Literature, Should

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