If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it