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"Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him."
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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."

"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"

"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"

"If Governments Promote The Principles Of The Kingdom, Then We Will See An Established Society."

"As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare, which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch....The problem, that is to say, is educational. It is a problem of continuously molding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it. The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way."
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"People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?"

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

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

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

"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."

"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 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."

"Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations."

"There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else."

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