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.

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

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

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

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.