As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

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

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

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.

It's very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don't seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

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