I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.