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

He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or that there was some obligation that the United States or the president had to expand democracy.

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.

[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.