Bob Woodward People Quotations

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.

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?

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

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

Journalism is a contact sport, ... I was 29 when people who really knew how to shoot were around.

That's for other people to judge. I think the biggest mistake you can make in this sort of situation as a reporter is to worry about yourself.

It's astonishing how you can get people to help you who in a sense probably shouldn't help you, who will make admissions and provide guidance endangering to themselves.

It's very important that people trust the media.

If you were to ask the same group of people 25 years ago, after Nixon resigned, 'Are you better off?' ... most people would raise their hand because it established the rule of law, ... But I wonder. You can't quite draw a line from (Nixon resigning) to the well-being of everyone. In the case of Greenspan, in terms of people's economic well being, it's a pretty straight line.