A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun?
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don’t print matter a lot.
Whatever power I exert is collegial.
The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
Truth and news are not the same thing.
The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.
Some questions don’t have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.
I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.
In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can’t be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.
Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.