Bob Woodward

Found 14 thoughts of Bob Woodward

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

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

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

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

We need to police ourselves in the media.

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.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.