Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I'm gonna get mad.

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

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

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

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