Top 65 Quotes by Bob Woodward

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

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