The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.

I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is -- a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

The sudden ending of a White House career all seems so unceremonious for aides who have personally sacrificed a lot -- and sometimes even bent their conscience -- to do the president's bidding.