Whatever power I exert is collegial.

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

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.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

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.

Truth and news are not the same thing.