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

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

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

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.