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

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

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

You never monkey with the truth.

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.

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.