He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

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.

She was benediction, a touch of faith, life itself coursing through my veins collapsed in age and turmoil, and to my fatigued and weary heart, a new and vibrant throb.

If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.

The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.