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

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" I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through. "

" When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening. "

" This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history. "

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

" War makes strange bedfellows. "

" 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. "

" Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand. "

" 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. "

" Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans. "

" 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. "

" We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed. "

" Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won. "

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

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

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

" We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king. "

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

" 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. "

" We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press. "

" I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible. "

" The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. "

" The sudden ending of a White House career all seems so unceremonious for aides who have personally sacrificed a lot - and sometimes even bent their conscience - to do the president's bidding. "

" 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. "

" 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. "