It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

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

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.

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

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

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