Best 93 quotes of Bob Woodward on MyQuotes

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.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

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

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

[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.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or that there was some obligation that the United States or the president had to expand democracy.

I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

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.

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

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.

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.

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.

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

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

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

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.

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.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

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.

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.

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

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

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

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.

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.

I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

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.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

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.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

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.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

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

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