Bob Woodward

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

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.

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

The point [of the PR industry] is to undermine markets by projecting imagery to delude and suppressing information-and similarly, to undermine democracy by the same method.

The understanding that a third world war could be the end of civilization should restrain us from taking extreme steps on the international arena that are highly dangerous for modern civilization.

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President’s views.

Nationalizing the whole oil sector would be a difficult and highly dangerous process, which could have negative consequences not only for the sector but for the whole economy.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own because that is what you’re going to do during your life, not just absorb materials given to you by the outside, and repeat it.

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

My use of social media is not presidential – it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!

For many years, I have been writing and speaking about the danger of the rise of an honest and charismatic ideologue in the United States, someone who could exploit the fear and anger that has long been boiling in much of the society, and who could direct it away from the actual agents of malaise to vulnerable targets. That could indeed lead to what sociologist Bertram Gross called ‘friendly fascism’ in a perceptive study 35 years ago..

Capital punishment is a crime. I agree with Amnesty International on that one, and indeed with most of the world. The state should have no right to take people’s lives.

Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or a tendency to lash out. You need to be steady and measured and well-informed.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.