And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for having espoused the concepts of democracy, freedom throughout a very difficult communist period, a very modest man, and somebody with a fabulous sense of humor and the idea of being able to see the absurd in situations.

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

I think even Republicans are saying [Andrew] Puzder may have a problem.

We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.