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    Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.

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    Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

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    Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

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    Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual or religious belief.

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    Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

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    Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.

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    I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.

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    I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

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    I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

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    I just had a thought that perhaps religion is so vibrant here is because of the melting pot aspect to our society. WE have so many cultures here in the US and they all bring something new to their religious experiences.

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    I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

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    I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

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    I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

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    It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.

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    Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

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    I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

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    I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.

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    Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

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    My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.

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    Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

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    Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.

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    Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

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    The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

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    The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

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    The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

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    The important is not what you believe but how you behave.

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    The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.

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    ... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

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    We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

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    We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

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    When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.

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    Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

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    Pay attention to me.