Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him. Bob Woodward Read Quote
The biggest rap on me is that I don’t find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It’s not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused. Bob Woodward Read Quote
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. Bob Woodward Read Quote
There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything? Bob Woodward Read Quote
I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I’ve been told by first-hand sources. Bob Woodward Read Quote
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can. Bob Woodward Read Quote
People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I’m a Washington insider, and you know, that’s quite silly. What does that even mean? Bob Woodward Read Quote
I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they’re not calling me up and asking me for dinner. Bob Woodward Read Quote