Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

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.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

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