One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop treating their communications operations as secondary assignments or (as still too often happens) dumping grounds for officers who have failed at everything else - but as missions absolutely essential to success.

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.