Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

The first rough draft of history.

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

You never monkey with the truth.

Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

My son is a blessing in every way.

A seven year old to a neighbor after the boy's house burned down, "Oh, that was not our home. That was our house. We still have our home. We just don't have a place to put it right now."

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.