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

We're all idealistic when young.

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.

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.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

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