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

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" It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business. "

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

" I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it. "

" We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I'm of Arab background. "

" 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. "

" Every President hates the Press. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. "

" 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. "

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

" Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time. "