Good work is always done in defiance of management.

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.

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.