I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.