My Mother Did All She Could To

So When I Cover The President, I Try To Remember Two Things: First, If You Don't Ask, You Don't Find Out; And Second, The Questions Don't Do The Damage. Only The Answers Do.

You Really Get The Most Out Of Sweet Corn If You Pick The Corn Off The Stalk And Rush It To A Pot Of Boiling Water. The Longer You Wait, The More Sugar You Lose. But If You Get It In The First Half Hour, That Is The Sweetest Corn Ever.

And Really, The Basis, I Think, Of Achieving Some Success In What I Want To Do Today Comes From My Mother's Push To Get Me To Read And To Make Something Of Myself From The Standpoint Of An Education.

If You Have A Setback, And You're Not Doing Well And Then You Overcome It Somehow, It Always Sticks With You. You Know It Could Happen Again.

In 27 Years Of Reporting From Washington, I've Never Heard A President Admit He Made A Mistake.