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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. "

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

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

" Every President hates the Press. "

" The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others. "

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

" 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. "

" War makes strange bedfellows. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous. "

" I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness. "

" 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. "

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

" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "