Tabitha Soren Quotes

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.

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.

When Trump took office, it didn't matter if you'd covered the White House for 10 years or 10 minutes. No one knew what to expect. We would be told about press conferences a few minutes before.

I am a member of that small, little group that covers - I'm a member of the White House correspondents association. I go to the White House every day.

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

I would love to interview Sean Spicer.

People still assume the White House Correspondents' Association works for the White House, when in reality, it's a group of journalists who cover the White House. It's a branding thing, but because it has the 'White House' before it, people think they're just King Joffrey's goons.

People don't realize there's a whole separate entrance to the White House for journalists.

When you cover the White House, which I've done on and off, it's relatively straightforward - everything the president does is news.

I've said many times: I'm not a Washington reporter.

From breaking down the latest headlines on 'FOX News @ Night' to explaining the complexities of the law, I have had the opportunity to report from the front lines of the major stories emanating out of Washington.

Covering Capitol Hill was my first assignment in political journalism, and I still think it is the best beat in Washington.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.