Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.