W.E. Woodward Quotes
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
Take time today to pause every now and then, take a deep breath of that moment, and know that God loves you. He will whisper "I love you" in a 1000 different ways.
If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.
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.
Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.
Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.
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.
All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.
Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.
Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.
A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.
Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.
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.
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
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.
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.
I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.
You will never realize success on the outside until you can see it clearly o the inside. Success is inside out.
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.
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.
I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.
To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.
There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.
