An outsider's point of view is always handy.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

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.

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

We're all idealistic when young.

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