We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.