Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.

To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's true.

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

You never monkey with the truth.

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

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