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

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

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

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.

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

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.