Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward
Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodwardis an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter and is now an associate editor of the Post...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth26 March 1943
CityGeneva, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Bob Woodward quotes about
literature lifetime watergate
We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
lying literature should
There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
book literature littles
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.
literature trouble deals
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
media police literature
We need to police ourselves in the media.
media literature journalism
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
disclose effort joe organized publicly sort undercover wife
Was there some sort of conspiracy, or organized effort, or effort by one person to out, to disclose publicly that Joe Wilson's wife was an undercover operative?
people leader president
Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'
silly mean people
People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
distance practice long
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.
media politician euthanasia
If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
book impact aftermath
There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
lying voice dollars
When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
independent newspapers stills
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.