The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

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.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.