Top 100 Woodward's Quotes
#1. And then, after publication of Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars
Robert M. Gates
#2. Joanne Woodward's Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.
Jeanine Basinger
#3. Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.
Orrin Woodward
#4. Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.
Orrin Woodward
#5. Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic ...
Bob Woodward
#6. A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.
Mark R. Woodward
#7. There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
Bob Woodward
#8. The cook's role is to feed the body while a leader's role is to feed the mind and spirit.
Orrin Woodward
#9. New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.
Orrin Woodward
#10. It's easier to teach a hungry person how to be sharp than it is to teach a sharp person how to be hungry.
Orrin Woodward
#11. People buy into leaders through the 3R's of Leadership: Relationship, Reason, and Results.
Orrin Woodward
#12. The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
Bob Woodward
#13. If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
Bob Woodward
#14. It's not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.
Orrin Woodward
#15. It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things.
Joanne Woodward
#16. Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.
Orrin Woodward
#17. Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.
Bob Woodward
#18. Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
Bob Woodward
#19. If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.
Orrin Woodward
#20. I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'
Kristen Stewart
#21. No matter how much tarnish you think is on the tabernacle of your heart, you still shine because of God's love.
Mark R. Woodward
#22. Today's internet bloggers and television's talking heads don't have that [a partnership]. No safety net. No brakes. No one there to question, doubt or inspire. No editor. [Carl Bernstein's A reporter's assessment]
Bob Woodward
#23. Looking for a job is one of Hell's choicest samples on earth.
Helen Woodward
#24. I don't like getting myself in hot water. But suddenly I find that every minute I have to stop and think about what I'm saying. I can see what's going to happen. I'm going to have to stop giving interviews because I'm always saying the wrong thing. I don't want that to happen.
Joanne Woodward
#26. Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.
Orrin Woodward
#27. Just as water will not surpass the capacity of the container, a team's success will not surpass the capacity of the leader.
Orrin Woodward
#28. K [Kissinger] called from New York all disturbed because he felt someone had been getting to the P [President] on Vietnam ... Henry's concerned that the P's looking for a way to bug out and he thinks that would be a disaster now.
Bob Woodward
#29. I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
Bob Woodward
#30. I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.
Chris Carter
#31. It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.
Orrin Woodward
#32. If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
Bob Woodward
#33. People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
Bob Woodward
#34. Things are perfect only in the eye of the beholder. It's the uniqueness that drives us. Life isn't about what is perfect for everybody else; it's about what is perfect for you.
A.E. Woodward
#35. The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result.
Orrin Woodward
#36. I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.
Bob Woodward
#37. I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
Bob Woodward
#38. If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
Bob Woodward
#39. Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
Bob Woodward
#40. Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
Bob Woodward
#41. An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.
Joanne Woodward
#42. Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.
Orrin Woodward
#43. Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.
Orrin Woodward
#44. faith is not a static, theoretical concept, but rather is central to one's life and is thus developed carefully and allowed to flourish in all areas of life, it becomes measurable in its effects.
Thomas E. Woodward
#45. A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
Bob Woodward
#46. Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.
Orrin Woodward
#47. When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
Bob Woodward
#48. I worked for a charity for a while, but ... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of just got lucky enough to live at my parents' house until I was actually making enough money to be somebody's roommate.
Shannon Woodward
#49. Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.
Orrin Woodward
#50. McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical successes did not translate into a strategic victory. This was why counterinsurgency - blanketing the population in safety and winning them over - was necessary.
Bob Woodward
#51. Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears.
Orrin Woodward
#52. Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.
Orrin Woodward
#53. To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.
Orrin Woodward
#54. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#55. It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.
Bud Macfarlane Jr.
#56. The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
Bob Woodward
#57. Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.
Orrin Woodward
#58. [Raising Hope] is a weird show about weird little humans who love each other.
Shannon Woodward
#60. God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.
Orrin Woodward
#61. Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
Joanne Woodward
#62. It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.
Orrin Woodward
#63. Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.
Orrin Woodward
#64. You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be
Orrin Woodward
#66. I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.
Joanne Woodward
#67. Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
Bob Woodward
#68. Everyone has the spark of greatness; a leader's role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within.
Orrin Woodward
#69. Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.
Orrin Woodward
#70. Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!
Orrin Woodward
#71. You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose.
Orrin Woodward
#72. A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose.
Orrin Woodward
#73. The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
Bob Woodward
#74. The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
Bob Woodward
#75. Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.
Bob Woodward
#76. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
Orrin Woodward
#77. Hey what's your name"
"Candi." She's hesitant, like that beaten dog Jade mentioned. "Candi Woodward."
"I'm Ayla Monroe."
She laughs uneasily. "I know."
"Out, Candi Cane," Jane orders.
Roxanne St. Claire
#78. Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.
Orrin Woodward
#79. Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.
Orrin Woodward
#80. Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.
Orrin Woodward
#81. Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.
Bob Woodward
#82. It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.
Orrin Woodward
#83. A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.
Orrin Woodward
#84. Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
Bob Woodward
#85. I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
Bob Woodward
#86. After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Bob Woodward
#87. Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which he had inherited George W. Bush's presidency - the apparatus, personnel and mind-set of war making.
Bob Woodward
#88. In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
Bob Woodward
#89. I know Roomba is a vacuum ... But, whenever it's mentioned, my instinct is to be excited about a new fun party game involving rhythm and friends!
Shannon Woodward
#90. The words from The Microlight Pilot's Handbook hammered in my temples. 'It is better to be on the ground wishing to God you were in the air, than in the air wishing to God you were on the ground.
Antony Woodward
#91. The fact he has some kind of bond with you is quite extraordinary", she [Deep Throat's daughter] said. "He doesn't remember Ed Miller and other FBI guys. He remembers J. Edgar Hoover".
Well, I thought, Hoover and me.
Bob Woodward
#92. I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.
Bob Woodward
#93. Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.
Joanne Woodward
#94. Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.
Orrin Woodward
#95. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.
Orrin Woodward
#96. You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears.
Sandy Woodward
#97. A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.
W.E. Woodward
#98. You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.
Orrin Woodward
#99. I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.
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R.K. Ryals
#100. The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
Ben Bradlee
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