I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown. The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.