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

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

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

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

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

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

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.