Bob Woodward Quotes

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.

All the media are horrible.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war

I apologize for what the media has done.

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

it much more conduceth to Peace to prevent brawles from arising, than to appease them being risen