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.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

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

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.