News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

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

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.

Truth and news are not the same thing.

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