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" I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting. "

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" I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries. "

" Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much less than you thought you'd have going in. You're hamstrung in ways you never dreamed of. "

" I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean. "

" In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money. "

" After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be 'Just Like Us?' 'Just Like Us' means just as boring as we are. "

" We live in a culture of destructive transparency. "

" I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment. "

" Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work. "

" I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna. "

" For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders. "

" I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president. "

" I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.' "

" Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant. "

" Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare. "

" The most frequent thing people said to me about Princess Diana when I was conducting interviews for my biography was that she could create a circle of intimacy in the middle of a crowd. "

" No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs. "

" In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals. "

" It's so thrilling to be intimidated. "

" Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one. "

" Servility always curdles into rage in the end. "

" Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song. "

" The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? "

" Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. "

" What has happened to America's survival instincts? "

" Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted. "

" The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written. "

" 'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism. "

" Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993. "

" I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print. "