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

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.

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

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

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.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.