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Quotes from Bob Woodward

After Nixon resigned in August 1974 he spent much of the remaining 20 years of his life conducting a war on history, trying to diminish his role in Watergate and other crimes, while attempting to elevate his foreign policy and other accomplishments. But nearly each year since 1974 new tapes and documents have been released showing the depth of his criminality and abuse of power.
~ Bob Woodward
Which Democrats caused Trump the most trouble? "The more mainstream. The more they appeal to moderates. Look, this election is about moderates. That's who determines elections.
~ Bob Woodward
But to remove a president with a such a strong base in their party was pretty much unthinkable.
~ Bob Woodward
But it is a sad state of affairs for our country that we've been taken over by a dictator who used force against another branch of government. And he's still sitting there. He should have been arrested. He should have been arrested on the spot. He had a coup d'état against us so he can stay in office. There should be some way to remove him. But anyway, it's no use wasting your time on this. I appreciate that. Thank you, General. Thank you.
~ Bob Woodward
It never ends," Graham said. "It's good versus evil. Good versus evil never ends. It's just like the Nazis. It's now radical Islam. It will be something else one day.
~ Bob Woodward
Butterfield wanted out. Anticipating reelection, he heard Nixon tell Haldeman on several occasions that it would be, more than ever, a time for vengeance. "Now, we're going to get them, Bob," Nixon said. "Now we're going to nail those sons of bitches." The atmosphere of retribution aimed at Democrats, the media, the antiwar movement and any perceived Nixon opponent was pervasive.
~ Bob Woodward
gather all the points of view, the data, integrate them if possible and present the president with some options, get a decision and develop an implementation plan.
~ Bob Woodward
That set the stage for a change agent. Hillary was the past. It was that clear.
~ Bob Woodward
The total cost was $4 billion for 100 million additional Pfizer doses.
~ Bob Woodward
When my book comes out next year," I said, "this assessment will be such old news, it will not be news at all. It will be irrelevant." It is news now, I said.
~ Bob Woodward
If Kushner could not find a Middle East peace plan, "nobody can," Trump said. Kushner didn't.
~ Bob Woodward
The employment picture was so favorable that the United States would run out of workers soon.
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Georgia Republican and far-right lawmaker
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The elder Kim had dealt with weapons test failures by ordering the death of the responsible scientists and officials. They were shot. The younger Kim accepted failures in tests, apparently absorbing the practical lesson: Failure is inevitable on the road to success. Under Kim Jong Un, the scientists lived to learn from their mistakes, and the weapons programs improved.
~ Bob Woodward
Flynn told associates that his legal bills were astronomical, as were his son's, who was also being investigated. A one-count guilty plea for lying seemed the only way out. His statement said, "I accept full responsibility for my actions," and said he now had an "agreement to cooperate." He denied that he had committed "treason," an apparent denial that he had colluded with the Russians.
~ Bob Woodward
know where he was heading. "A lot of times
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He was just making it up.
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Carter, the outsider, didn't understand his own power and appeal, the centrality of the president to Washington, its own peculiar games and power rituals. He was not only removed from the capital city but alienated from it. Watergate had helped produce the most unlikely president: a loner.
~ Bob Woodward
Men who take up arms against one another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings responsible to one another and to God.
~ Bob Woodward
North Korea's cyber capability had been demonstrated powerfully in a 2014 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment designed to stop the release of a satirical movie about Kim Jong Un. The movie, a comedy called The Interview, depicted two journalists going to North Korea to assassinate the youthful dictator.
~ Bob Woodward
Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. So, have you given Kim too much power? I asked. Kim had said he wouldn't shoot more ICBMs (Intercontinental ballistic missiles).Because if he's defiant, if he shoots one of those ICBMs, what are you going to do sir? If he shoots, he shoots, Trump said.
~ Bob Woodward
Number one," Bannon went on, "we're going to stop mass illegal immigration and start to limit legal immigration to get our sovereignty back. Number two, you are going to bring manufacturing jobs back to the country. And number three, we're going to get out of these pointless foreign wars.
~ Bob Woodward
You show by where you go and by the use of your time what's most important.
~ Bob Woodward
GOP-pushed audit
~ Bob Woodward