We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Whatever power I exert is collegial.

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

So few grown women like their lives.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.