made a unique contribution to the annals of journalism with her White House reportage that spanned four decades.

Terrorism is a weapons system, ... From time immemorial it has been the weapon of the weak against the strong. The real war on terror is about culture, ideas and perceptions as much as roadside bombs and suicide bombs.

Newsweek is a perpetual French Revolution. They keep eliminating their best people.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.

one contribution to a new phase of citizen journalism in which the tools of the web are used along with some old fashioned reporting tools to extend the domain of reporting in a much broader fashion, farther than civic journalism was able to do and sustain.