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"If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources."
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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."

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

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

"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."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."

"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."

"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."

"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already."
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"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."

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

"The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies."

"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."

"If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources."

"I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print."

"When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans."

"Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him."

"When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on."
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