The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I'm gonna get mad.

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

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.

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.

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