Katharine Weymouth Quotes

My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.

Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

I dont feel like my job is to be beloved.

I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... . Whether it's a politics page and you want Dan Balz to tell you what is he reading, what does he think are the smartest articles today on the elections or the primaries. So, I think aggregation is great ... . So I'm all for aggregation. And the more eyeballs we can get to our content, the better. We do want readers to be educated and to understand the difference between, what is a source that you can trust as opposed to just rumors out there. And the difference between just repurposing content and not crediting it.