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

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

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

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

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?