Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk..

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from….

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television..

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews..

Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting..

I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in..

There's hostility to lying, and there should be..

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understan….

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits..

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell a….

I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappo….

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats….

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it..

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the fin….

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government..

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someon….

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The grea….