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

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

Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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

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

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.

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