Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

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

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

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.

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.

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