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 fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

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

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

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.

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