How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.