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The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'

Washington newspaper men know everything.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'.

It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.

If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.