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" I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work. "

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

" I don't think a tough question is disrespectful. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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

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

" When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected. "

" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names. "

" We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous. "

" The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar. "

" Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. "

" 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. "

" I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die. "

" In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president. "

" I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why. "

" I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?' "

" The sudden ending of a White House career all seems so unceremonious for aides who have personally sacrificed a lot - and sometimes even bent their conscience - to do the president's bidding. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "