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Quotes by Journalist
"If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end."
"The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness."
"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure."
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"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
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"There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock."
"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."
"Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form."
"Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect."
"Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred."
"Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something."
"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."
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"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views."
"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."
"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."
"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
"Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him."
"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."
"Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does."
"Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline."
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."
"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes."
"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement."
"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
"For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'"
"When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella."
"There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful."
"His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen."
"Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?"
"There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes."
"Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer."
"Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington."
"The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different."
"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."
"There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman."
"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property."
"Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties."
"All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common."
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