If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'

You can actually herd cats. They can’t be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they’ll follow, even in herds.

The government of the world’s most powerful nation is running furiously in place.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don’t have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I’m a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it’s like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders – management skills.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there’s more news that’s falling into books.

I don’t have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

When you get people standing up saying, ‘I’m going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,’ it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.