Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness