Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

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

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

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.