359 Quotes by Bob Woodward

Members of his staff had joined to purposefully block some of what they believed were the president’s most dangerous impulses. It was a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.

Paris was one of the justifications the Obama administration used as part of the regulatory record to justify the cost and benefits of the Clean Power Plan.” That was an Obama-era 460-page rule to lower carbon dioxide emitted by power plants that the EPA estimated would save 4,500 lives a year. Pruitt was already moving to end the policy.

The president has zero psychological ability to recognize.

In Bannon’s evaluation, Trump was Archie Bunker, but a really focused Archie Bunker.

Everybody’s trying to get me,” the president said.

I realized,” Bannon said later, “I’m the director, he’s the actor.

All presidencies are audience driven, but Trump’s central audience was often himself. He kept giving himself reviews. Most were passionately positive. Much of his brain was in the press box.

Trump was a guy who “never went to class. Never got the syllabus.

You need to remember we’re a nuclear power. As powerful as you. You Americans think you won the Cold War. You did not win the Cold War. We never fought that war. We could have, but we didn’t.’ And that put chills up my spine.