You never monkey with the truth.

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

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

It's very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don't seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.