 I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it. |
| I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media. |
| Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations. |
| Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives. |
| When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans. |
| Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred. |
| I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on. |
| I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print. |
| Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions. |
| If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard. |
| It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system. |
| Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. |
| There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else. |
| Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped. |
| I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return. |
| 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. |
| Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post. |
| After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. |
| 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. |
| If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources. |
