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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. "

" War makes strange bedfellows. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'm of Arab background. "

" 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. "

" 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. "