“I just think — I don’t know, ‘hero,’ that’s not a word I throw around. But in just looking at the landscape at the time, what Washington was like, it does make a kind of moral sense to me.” — CNN NewsNight anchor Aaron Brown on Mark Felt as the leaker “Deep Throat,” May 31, 2005.

“Accept for a moment this premise. There will be no winners in the impeachment battle going on, no heroes are going to emerge from this mess, that when all is said and done, the landscape will be littered with losers of varying sorts. Ms. Lewinsky, whose life is forever changed, Ms. Tripp, who will never seem heroic, Judge Starr will be no winner, and Mr. Clinton will be the biggest loser of all. According to this premise, the only person even vaguely close to a winner is the First Lady. And what a heavy price she has paid for that. “— ABC Good Morning America/Sunday anchor Aaron Brown leading into a segment on how fabulous Hillary looks in the new Vogue magazine, November 22, 1998.