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

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

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.

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.

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.

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