Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

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.

The first rough draft of history.

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

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.

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

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