Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

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.

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.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

Truth and news are not the same thing.

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

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.