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

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

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.

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 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.