The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.