It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's true.

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

You never monkey with the truth.