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" It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Every President hates the Press. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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 United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal. "

" I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza. "

" To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul. "

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

" 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. "

" We won't really know what will happen until it happens. "

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

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

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

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

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

" We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits. "

" 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. "