It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

Confidence is the public face of competence..

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious..

[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was….

The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really..

Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the preside….

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches..

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction..

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills..

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken..

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that so….

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status..

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it..

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen..

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle..

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere..

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time….

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees..

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawy….

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent..

The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right coming up until the….