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.

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

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.

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.

Truth and news are not the same thing.

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.