Good work is always done in defiance of management.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.