The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.