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"I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."

"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."

"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."

"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."

"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means."

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
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"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."

"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."

"People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?"

"Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government."

"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."

"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

"Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point."

"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."

"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law."

"Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story."
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