People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

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

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

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

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.

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.