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

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

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

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

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

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

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.