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" All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.' "

" All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. "

" As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan. "

" But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer. "

" Clinton is the first female to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land. She has the credentials, the stamina and she is a good campaigner. Her detractors in both parties like to say she can't win, but they may be proven wrong. "

" Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. "

" Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth. "

" Every President hates the Press. "

" Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. "

" Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names. "

" I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations. "

" I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?' "

" I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press. "

" I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate. "

" I don't think a tough question is disrespectful. "

" I don't think there are any rude questions. "

" If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. "

" I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family. "

" I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly. "

" I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest. "

" I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive. "

" I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day. "

" I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die. "

" I'm covering the worst president in American history. "

" I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work. "

" I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist. "

" I'm of Arab background. "

" In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president. "

" I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why. "

" I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun? "

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