“It's getting the right person that's the challenge.” PersonsLiteratureChallengesRight Person Author:Bob Schieffer
“Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.” WayTryingPersonsAsksLiteratureAnswersStudiosInterviewsFollow Up Author:Bob Schieffer
“They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.” KnowsMeanLife IsLiteratureTemporaryMeaning Life Author:Bob Schieffer
“[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.” PeopleBelieveLiteratureIssuesPressesClintonReporters Author:Bob Woodward
“I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.” KindLongBookLiteratureFeltWrittenFiguresCallingRepublicanProjectsAskingDemocratDinnerBonesAll KindsHatedUncomfortable Author:Bob Woodward
“I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.” LittlesMadeBookShowsLiteratureBitsSeriousLittle BitJokesCaughtJournalistLetterman Author:Bob Woodward
“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.” IfsNeedsImportantLiteratureRiskInformationWillingSourceNewspapers Author:Bob Woodward
“Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.” LiteraturePresidentOne ThingAchievementAffairListsRememberedSuspectsWatergateForeign Affairs Author:Bob Woodward
“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.” YearsWellsLiteratureCoupleUniqueRapPostsWatergate Author:Bob Woodward
“The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.” LiteratureDealsTroubleLegislators Author:Bob Woodward