AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started. – Ron Fournier
If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty. – Ron Fournier
Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist. – Ron Fournier
With gridlock the norm, Congresss approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership. – Ron Fournier
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith