I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits..

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world.".

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!.

To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We prin….

As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous a….

Generals who can write always make me nervous..

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever se….

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real….

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth..

The first rough draft of history..

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is..

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on..

You never monkey with the truth..

National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law ….

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth..

I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it….

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood..

Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of t….

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he….

It's very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don't seem to realize that repo….