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..

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

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….

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

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society..

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

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..

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

Whatever power I exert is collegial..

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political survei….

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

Truth and news are not the same thing..

So few grown women like their lives..

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

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

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

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

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade..

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..

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….

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….