It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them..

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White….

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….

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes..

The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washingto….

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..

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

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

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yard….

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

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot..

Confidence is the public face of competence..

There are many instances in which those at the uppermost levels of the White House were feeling the President [Barack Obama] was not fully informed o….

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….

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the ….

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

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterr….

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia..

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

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world..