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

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

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

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

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.