Whatever power I exert is collegial.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

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.

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

In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.

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