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

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

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

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

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

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.

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