It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.

I was kind of feeling a spiritual need all those years. My wife Geraldine and I went to an Episcopalian Church for a while. Oh, it just seemed very political to me that a guy so liberal was talking about opposing the war in Vietnam and I didn't want to hear that when I went to church. I wanted something spiritual.

Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.