We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.
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.
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.
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
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.
I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
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.
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
It was accountability that Nixon feared.
I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
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.
There's hostility to lying, and there should be.