The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

The only thing that would keep me from winning the election is to be caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to the chagrin of the people that we seek to serve.

There are no such things as curses; only people and their decisions