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Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

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Bob Woodward
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 26
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I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
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I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
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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.
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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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.
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If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
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The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
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