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.

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.

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

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

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

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.