But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.
As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.
There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.
It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.
If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.
As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.
If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
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.
My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.'
For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.
There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!Collection: Sense Of Humor
My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have itCollection: Jobs
A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for the global economy as a whole, because it would result in a spiraling depreciation of the dollar, a surge in American interests rates, a collapse in the market for American government debt.Collection: Government
People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.Collection: Creativity
The vast majority of Americans are employed in service sector industries, and many of those sectors are highly internationalized. The most high-value added sectors, notably the tech sector, is massively globalized. And, for them, it would be a disaster if America's trade policy was to go down a spiraling route towards protectionism.Collection: America
When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.Collection: Thinking
Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.Collection: Next Day
I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.Collection: Thinking
One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?Collection: Thinking
Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?Collection: People
We haven't learned to be the majority party. We haven't learned how to lead. We're still stuck in the opposition.Collection: Party
My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.Collection: Mother
I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think he talked about wanting to write plays and keep appealing to people through that medium, rather than politics.Collection: Writing
There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.Collection: Country
The United States and China have both beefed up their naval presence in Southeast Asia, leading to fears of a military confrontation. This is just one example of China flexing its military muscle in recent months, and it coincides with a slowdown in the nation's economy.Collection: Military
President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.Collection: War
There was a bridge to the 21st century, and yet, somehow, for very large number of Americans, it was unclear how you got from one place to the other, from being a manual working-class man to being some part of a Brooklyn-based sharing economy.Collection: Men
United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.Collection: Military
The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.Collection: Heyday
I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.Collection: Mean
I think one can see the [Donald] Trump program as if it were that element of the bailout of 2009 writ very large, and now extended out towards both fossil fuels, and, on the other hand, the infrastructure program, which is such a key element of the spending side of the Trump program.Collection: Thinking
Vaclav Havel was a really popular leader. He couldn't believe that he was really there. I mean, he still dressed in black T-shirts and jeans and was very kind of '60s. And he began to realize the seriousness of it. And he knew how to strategize. And he had a very keen political sense, but he didn't want to be like the old communist leaders.Collection: Believe
All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.Collection: Two
From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.Collection: Perspective
The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.Collection: Brain
The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.Collection: Fields
A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.Collection: Nuclear
You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.Collection: May
CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.Collection: Levels
A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.Collection: People
I think we have reached such saturation levels, the money at this point doesn't swing election.Collection: Thinking
I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.Collection: School
In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.Collection: Effort