Quotes from Bob Woodward

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

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

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

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

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.

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

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

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

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

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.

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

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.

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

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

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.