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

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

You never monkey with the truth.

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.