Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

You never monkey with the truth.

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

I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn't that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

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