86 Quotes by Katharine Graham

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

Truth and news are not the same thing.

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

Whatever power I exert is collegial.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.