A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

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.

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.