I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.

[It's] Rare for a first lady to be running for president.

Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.

One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.