I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.