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" I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun? "

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" We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king. "

" I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate. "

" I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations. "

" The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others. "

" I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest. "

" This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history. "

" It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business. "

" I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press. "

" Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans. "

" I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness. "

" You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun. "

" Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time. "

" I'm covering the worst president in American history. "

" War makes strange bedfellows. "

" All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. "

" The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. "

" I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive. "

" We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits. "

" We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press. "

" I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist. "

" I don't think there are any rude questions. "

" Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth. "

" You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. "

" When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening. "

" We won't really know what will happen until it happens. "

" All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.' "

" We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers. "

" People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls. "

" Many voters think about the makeup of the Supreme Court when they are choosing a president. The justices deal not only with constitutional issues but also with social issues that were unknown to the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution more than 200 years ago. "

" I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it. "