They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

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

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

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 believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.