I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.

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Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

Bob Woodward

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When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

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It was accountability that Nixon feared.

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The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

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

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I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Bob Woodward

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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

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If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

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The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

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When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

Bob Woodward

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Good work is always done in defiance of management.

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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

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

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He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or that there was some obligation that the United States or the president had to expand democracy.

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I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

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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?

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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

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

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Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

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If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

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