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

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.

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.

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

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

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

Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.