Explore Quotes by Bob Woodward

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 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.

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

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.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

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.

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

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

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