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.

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

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.

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

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.

The first rough draft of history.

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