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" I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible. "

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" I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through. "

" As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan. "

" 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. "

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

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

" But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal. "

" It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day. "

" Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. "

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

" 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 wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza. "

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

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