Bob Woodward

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

It’s better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

At the time of the First World War there was a fringe of dissidents, Bertrand Russell for example, who were in jail; Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknicht, in jail; Eugene Debs, in jail. That’s the standard picture throughout history. We find it right now.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

U.S. and Canada were completely isolated from the rest of the hemisphere on two issues. One was admission of Cuba into hemispheric systems. The second was the drug war, which Latin America are essentially the victims of the drug war.

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.

I would not take a decision that kills millions of people, I do not believe the threat of mass murder is a legitimate way to go about dealing with international relations.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this-who will count the votes, and how.

When you see the other side chopping off heads, waterboarding doesn’t sound very severe.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

One goal of a well-crafted propaganda system is to dull the mental faculties, reducing its targets to a level at which they will respond with appropriate enthusiasm to slogans carrying a patriotic message.

[People] think they have done enough for the protection of individual freedom when they have surrendered it to the power of the nation at large. This does not satisfy me: the nature of him I am to obey signifies less to me than the fact of extorted obedience.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.