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

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

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.

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.

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