Washington Journal Quotes

“The creation of illusions is part of the process of clothing our government in some dignity. The predisposition to trust our leaders, despite some of the things we know about them, bespeaks an understanding that every free society has to proceed on trust.”
― Elizabeth Drew, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

“The Congress often pays little attention to how the laws are carried out by the executive, how the office of the President is executed, or whether the Constitution is being preserved.”
― Elizabeth Drew, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

“It is important to remember now, amid all this debris, how frightened we used to be.”
― Elizabeth Drew, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

“And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never heard of suddenly emerged as an agent in activities that were almost inconceivable.”
― Elizabeth Drew, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall