I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard."

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

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.