Bob Woodward Quotes

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

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.

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

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!

Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.

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.

I think Bob Woodward's books are important books.

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.

I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

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

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

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

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

The United States has made it through more than 200 years without ever finding it necessary to prosecute a journalist for soliciting a public employee to disclose confidential national security information.

Seymour Hersh is one of the giants of investigative journalism.

Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and sometimes even their lives: Watergate: Confidential sources. The Pentagon Papers: Confidential sources. Enron: Confidential sources.

Journalism is not writing.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.