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

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

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.

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.

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