Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.

Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.