About Bob Woodward: Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward is an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter, and is now an associate editor of the Post.
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
It was accountability that Nixon feared.
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.
The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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.
When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.
We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
We need to police ourselves in the media.
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 deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.
