As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

A statue is just a statue until someone comes along and says it is beautiful. Then it starts to enjoy the magnificence of life.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Love dies only when growth stops.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

We don't really make friends, they make us.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.