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

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

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

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

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.

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

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.