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

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

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.

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

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

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.