The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.

[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again