Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

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 understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.

Job and salary is the greatest slavery you can ever set upon yourself

You know this isn't right. You know you aren't supposed to be with him. If you do this with him...if you continue to fall in love with him...I will die.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

But one always returns to one's first loves. [Fr., Mais on revient toujours A ses premieres amours.]

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.