It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

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.

Brave people believe in a higher power than themselves.

Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Time is given us to use in view of eternity.

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.