#pol

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#call #certain #comment #doing #figures

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#candidates #character #except #extent #give

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

#asked #hard #interviewed #media #politicians

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#beginning #could #end #political #political system

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#cloud #dissipate #doubt #figures #never

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything? ↗

— Bob Woodward

#around #culture #garbage #out #people

We need to police ourselves in the media. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#need #ourselves #police

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#all day #day #kent #must #never

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience. ↗

— Joe Wright

#action film #action films #art #bad #bourne

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender