I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

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

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.

The first rough draft of history.

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.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.