The only thing God didn’t do to Job was give him a computer.

I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called “the significant trifle” – the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.

When you’re young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn’t commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch and asks your opinion, you're sunk.

There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.

Rich people march on Washington every day.