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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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"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."
"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."
"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."
"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."
"Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview."
"Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program."
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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."
"I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates."
"Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something."
"I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch."
"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."
"Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect."
"I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting."
"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."
"I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner."
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