Charles Colson Quotes

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!

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.

Knowledge is a form of power and most institutions exhibit an understandable reluctance to dissipate this power in the absence of compensating advantages

I sat next to Carl Bernstein throughout Watergate, and Woodward would come over, and they would argue everything out, so I was really tuned into what happened.

I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.

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

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

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

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

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.

I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

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.

… J. Edgar Hoover, whom you should trust as much as you would a rattlesnake with a silencer on its rattle.

What did the President know and when did he know it?

That could have been a very successful Presidency had President Nixon really believed in our system.

To me, the funniest American of the Twentieth Century is Richard Nixon because he had the most to hide, and he was so bad at hiding it. To me, that's what's really funny - people who think they're doing a great job of hiding stuff, and it just keeps leaking out.

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands