Quotes About Deep Throat

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 Catholic Church lost the Culture Wars in 1965 when it failed to block pornography. Within seven years, hard-core pornographic films like Deep Throat (1972) and the Devil in Miss Jones (1973) were being shown in first run theaters, and Jewish power over the culture increased accordingly.

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

Well, just because someone might be a source doesn't necessarily make them Deep Throat

Reagan was read portions of his own diary, and he said something I'll never forget: It's like I wasn't president at all. Very sad. As I reflected about this i was sure that I didn't want to badger Mark Felt in the same manner. i didn't want Felt to have to say, in effect, It's like i wasn't Deep Throat at all.

There were other miscalculations. Bernstein should not have used the silent confirm-or-hang-up method with the Justice Department lawyer. The instructions were too complicated. (Indeed, they learned, the attorney had gotten the instructions backward and had meant to warn them off the story.) With Deep Throat, Woodward had placed too much faith in a code for confirmation, instead of accepting only a clear statement.

I am trying to imagine language without light, as though I wanted to understand how things were before language, when, deep in the throat, syllables and vowels were not yet organized and it was necessary to tilt one's head back to allow sounds to fly through the open air, terrifying, guttural or strident.