I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

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

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

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.