When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.