I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

Hide from change and it will hide from you