We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes….

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet..

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn..

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex..

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society..

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising..

Whatever power I exert is collegial..

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential..

In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the p….

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot..

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I….

I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I thin….

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else..

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood..

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong..

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock..

So few grown women like their lives..

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it..

Truth and news are not the same thing..