My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.