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

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

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

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

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

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.

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