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Hope springs eternal, even in politics.
I got my first job by exceeding expectations.
My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.
Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.
[It's] Rare for a first lady to be running for president.
Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.
The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.
Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.
I certainly don't think Donald Trump suggesting violence in any way.
I'm not quite certain how you can force a candidate to stick by the rules.
Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.
Hyperbole is not easily dealt with. Usually, it collapses under its own weight.
I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.
On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.
I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.
There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.
Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.
We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.
One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.
We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.
I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.
It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.
I wish more people read hard copies of the newspaper and watched the evening news from start to finish.
I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.
If Donald Trump has proved anything, it is that there is nothing more powerful than a candidate's voice.
I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.
It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.
We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.
I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.
I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.
I am in the bad news business. Seldom do I get to report on puppies, rainbows, or the sounds of children giggling. Well, never.
No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.
I believe if we only are talking to people who agree with us, we are failing in some way to understand our world and our country.
I loved covering presidential politics - not so much because of the candidates but because of the people it allowed me to talk to.
It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.
Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.
I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.
If someone is complaining about the question or the questioner rather than providing an answer, they're usually trying to change the subject.
Americans don't mind rich politicians. History is full of them. What they do mind are people who ask for their vote but don't connect with them.
In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.
Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.
The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.
If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.
When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school desegregation rulings - political power is challenged as well.