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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.