A Mistake Is Simply Another

In Washington, The Public And The Private Intertwine In Such A Way That They Can't Be Easily Separated. This Is The City Where The Personal And The Political Are Most Closely Linked.

What I Essentially Did Was To Put One Foot In Front Of The Other, Shut My Eyes And Step Off The Ledge. The Surprise Was That I Landed On My Feet.

For More Than Eight Decades, Washington Has Been My Hometown. ... It Is A City That Offers Me More People -- More Different Kinds Of People -- Than I Could Otherwise Possibly Have Come To Know In A Lifetime: The Native Washingtonian, The Local Merchant, The Foreign Diplomat, The Ever-present Tourist, The Public Servant, The Journalist, The President, The Friend.

I Mean, I Think Everybody In The World, All The Young People In The World, Went To Journalism School And Wanted To Investigate Everything. And I Think They Overdid It. I Think That You Have To Investigate Things, You Have To E Skeptical, But You Shouldn't Be Vengeful. You Have To Be Fair And You Have To Be Careful.

So Few Grown Women Like Their Lives.