You never monkey with the truth.

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.

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.

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.

A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

You know, a lot of the people that are running. We want to go in; we want to have majorities. It's very important.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.

I think that I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find it really valuable, it's always just going to seem a little silly to me.

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.