Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

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

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

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

It was accountability that Nixon feared.