Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.