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

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

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

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

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

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.

By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.