At the earlier briefing, Ari Fleischer|Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up... My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis? ...

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

I don’t speechify. I know the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And that’s what I ask. But they get mad at the straight line. I just want to ask a tough question.

...it took a lot of chutzpah on the part of a lot of newspaper women who came here in the twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties to break down the barriers against women reporters. And we couldn’t even become members of the National Press Corps until 1971 — that’s pretty late in the game. We got the vote, which we should’ve been born with, in 1920. Everything we’ve had to struggle for — it’s ridiculous.

We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

Every President hates the Press. Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are even more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

Both Tony Blair|Blair and Bush have been found lacking in their credibility. Usually by this time a government would have fallen. I covered two presidents, Lyndon Johnson|LBJ and Richard Nixon|Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.