Bob Woodward

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

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

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

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

Poor people are basically superfluous for wealth production, and therefore the wealthy want to get rid of them. The rich also frighten everyone else, because if you’re afraid of these people, then you submit to state authority.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.

Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.

I feel as a culture we are ready to look at the truth and address it head on. I think it’s the power of how connected we all are with the digital revolution – there’s no where you can go without seeing the truth. Although it’s upsetting because we can’t believe at this day and age at this time it’s still that blatantly injustice in the world. I think it’s very empowering to do something about it and that’s the reason why I create the We Are Here movement out of my frustration about the apathy in society.

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

My habit is at the beginning of the year, I look at a blank calendar and then we put everything for the kids first like potlucks, sporting events, parent-teacher conferences, doctor’s appointments, and vacations. Second is me. When do I want to work out? When do I want to hang out with my girlfriends? What trips do I want to take? When can I take a long weekend? Put that on there. And then once all that’s done, everything else can come around that. It’s amazing because it forces you to say “no” because you’ve already blocked out the time.

I do not feel that we should set up people as ‘models’; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

I don’t read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. … Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. … The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Look for what’s missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what’s proposed or what’s gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn’t there.