By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in th….

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important..

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, mo….

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system..

We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsens….

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicia….

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some….

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some..

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine..

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him..

Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjo….

She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down..

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female..

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it..

In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was a….

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it..

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were..

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty..