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.

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.

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

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.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

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

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