The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West….

I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. Y….

I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants...The Washington press corps has the privilege of a….

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't g….

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on ….

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the futur….

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, the….

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf..

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest..

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietna….

I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the me….

Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which ….

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privileg….

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die..

I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to prot….

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king..

We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by ….

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young peopl….

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth..

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?.

I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work..