I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.

So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.