It’s hard to be ambitious if you’re content, isn’t it?

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don’t really care what you think off the top of your head.

Who laughs less than feminists?

I have never been one to look beyond today.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

I am not insecure about being a journalist.

I try to tell the truth.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn’t be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year’s resolution is not to bark back.

I don’t care what anybody thinks.

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don’t call you back, parts of the story you can’t get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter’s kindergarten class.

If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn’t seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It’s a Middle Ages thing. That’s my theory anyway.

Canadians are so easily wounded.

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

Living in Washington, you can’t take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don’t believe because they get paid to.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

I can’t wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He’s a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.

It’s hard to be ambitious if you’re content, isn’t it?

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

To politicize a man’s tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn’t it?

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration’s foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

The one thing I’m convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It’s clearly something he enjoys personally.