Bob Woodward Quotes

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'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

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

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

He [Richard M. Nixon] told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Come, come, come and play spy with me, Down at the old Watergate; Come, come, come live and lie with me, Down at the old Watergate. See the little German band, Ehrlichman and Haldeman; Don't Martha Mitchell look great? Come, come, come don't be shy with me; I'll have the whole FBI with me; Down at the old Water—we'll make the police blotter — Down at the old Watergate.

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.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You roll back the stones and you find the slithering things of the world of Richard Nixon.

The Watergate burglary was both illegal and stupid

Reveal Richard Nixon … lay him and his motives bare … destroy him in his shot for the Presidency.

I’m positive that the President is innocent of any involvement in Watergate

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.

I don't believe President Nixon ordered a break-in, but people working for him were doing it. And then that dragged the president in. And then you have the cover-up. And before you know it, the president's gone.

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.