359 Quotes by Bob Woodward

He's ducking the question but he's also right. You don't know what the judgment of history is going to be 10, 20 or 50 years out. It may be very different than it is now.

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

The tweets were not incidental to his presidency. They were central. He ordered printouts of his recent tweets that had received a high number of likes, 200,000 or more. He studied them to find the common themes in the most successful. He seemed to want to become more strategic, find out whether success was tied to the subject, the language or simply the surprise that the president was weighing in. The most effective tweets were often the most shocking.

I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they’ve got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case – why are we here, what is our message, how to connect to the real world.

Dowd was aware that he had illustrated the president was “clearly disabled.

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

Endgame goals were fuzzy or unstated. The result was often weeks or months of delay.

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

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