"To say that the press brought down Nixon, that's horseshit. The press always plays a role, whether by being passive o…"

"I think that the decision to nominate the story for a Pulitzer is of minimal consequence. I also think that it won is…"

"It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated fo…"

"I believed it, we published it. Official questions had been raised, but we stood by the story and her. Internal quest…"

"If so, our posture would be as follows: we published the story and said it was true, but now we are going to nominate…"

"I don't believe you on the 'Jimmy' story. No, I don't, and I'm going to prove it if it's the last thing I do."

"It's all over," he said to Cooke. "You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can…"

"At the heart of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign was his pledge to fix the economy and to use the presidency…"

"No journalist or historian can capture 100 percent of what happened. Neither journalism nor history provide an engine…"

"In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for fo…"