A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

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.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

Confidence is the public face of competence.

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