You never monkey with the truth.

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

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

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

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.

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

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.