Bob Woodward Quotes on People (10 Quotes)

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.

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

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

You travel around the United States (and) the Iraq war is topic A, B and C. It is at the emotional centre of where people are, whether they're for it or against it. It's touched the lives of people in a profound way.

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.

He told me 'I believe we have a duty to free the people, to liberate the people,' ... And I believe duty is the biggest word for a president.

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

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

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.