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" The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.' "

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" 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. "

" It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs. "

" The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone. "

" It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time. "

" 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. "

" I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype. "

" Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms. "

" Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time. "

" Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table. "

" We've heard a lot in recent polemic about how to win the fight for the corner office. But pushing up against a glass ceiling is practically a luxury when you consider the millions of women who can feel the floor dropping beneath their feet. "

" The Duke of York has never remarried. "

" Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in. "

" When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial. "

" 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. "

" Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse. "

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

" Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton. "

" Hillary Clinton has spent her entire career looking bug-eyed with incredulity when an interviewer asks her whatever question she most expects at that moment. "

" Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife. "

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

" Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. "

" Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets. "

" Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things. "

" Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service. "

" There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves. "

" The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. "

" It's so thrilling to be intimidated. "

" One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't. "

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