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

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

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 think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

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.