Good work is always done in defiance of management.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

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

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

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.

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.