If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

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

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.

We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

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.