There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

And I’m proud of what I do as a professional, too.

When I’m anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

Unless you’re doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough...

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters’ disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you...

I don’t know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the...

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the...

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

All wars are planned by old men In council rooms apart.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn’t apologize. He doesn’t back down a little bit.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn’t talk to me because I’m a woman.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator’s separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

And you can’t really cover people critically that you’re friends with.

Now, they invent them deliberately just to invalidate our ancestors’ reasoning, and that is all they are ever going to get out of them.

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

Well, I think the operating assumption of everybody is that Novak has provided information to Fitzgerald in one form or another.

What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It’s not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it’s just something that is not too...

I’ve been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from...

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn’t have invented The New York Review of Books.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn’t a profession, it’s a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you’re all set.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

The idea that you earn things – that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment… these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a...

I’m always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

It’s been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.