For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.

The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.