The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

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

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.

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.