The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

Whatever power I exert is collegial.