Bob Woodward

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.

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

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

It’s important to remember that the constitutional system was not designed in the first place to defend the rights of people. Rather, the rights of people had to be balanced, as Madison put it, against what he called ‘the rights of property.’

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

[living at the White House] This isn’t about us. There’s so much history here that no one family can claim this space as their own.

Take a look at Marx’s work. Very deep, analytic critique of a variety of capitalism, capitalist markets, properties, imperialism and so on, but about the future society a couple of scattered sentences, and I think, my guess is for good reasons.

A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, ‘What kind of peace?’

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

One fundamental goal of any well-crafted indoctrination program is to direct attention elsewhere, away from effective power, its roots, and the disguises it assumes.

Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories any more. We used to have victories but [now] we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China, in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.

[Governments are] …without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.