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"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."
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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
"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."
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
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"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."
"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
"The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right."
"The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists."
"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
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