Quotes from Maggie Haberman

I don't want to get into specifics of how I communicate with people, but I will say that people are concerned about being monitored.

When somebody is describing their job as fixing problems for someone, that usually does not suggest that they're dealing with their tax returns.

I have a running conversation with a couple of colleagues. Mike Schmidt's one of them; some on my White House team are others; Alex Burns on the politics team is another. That just helps me not lose my place, right? We're just constantly talking about what we're hearing and where things are.

I wasn't always a Twitter devotee. During the 2012 campaign, the first during which Twitter was widely used by journalists and campaign aides, I became something of a scold to younger reporters who I thought misused the medium.

I don't have an editor on Twitter. I have an editor in the paper, and so I tend to be less precise in 140 characters and sometimes I leave people confused as to my meaning. And then I make the mistake of engaging and trying to explain it, which just leads you down a rabbit hole.

Twitter has stopped being a place where I could learn things I didn't know, glean information that was free from errors about a breaking news story or engage in a discussion and be reasonably confident that people's criticisms were in good faith.

I met people through Twitter whom I wouldn't have otherwise. Readers sent me story tips over direct message. Many pointed out errors, but most did it respectfully, and I was appreciative.

I never wanted to be a reporter. I took a job at the New York Post as a clerk because I couldn't get a job in magazines, which is what I really wanted to do.

Usually I go to bed around midnight and wake up around 6, unless I have to do TV, in which case I get up at 5. I grab my phone, check my email, check Twitter. I have push alerts for the president and some other reporters.

If you listen to Donald Trump speak on almost any given issue, you will hear him take both sides of that issue - in the same sentence, sometimes. It's very, very hard to pin him down in any specific way.

I was a bartender for four years, and that was the best training that I had for learning how to approach people.

I mean, Trump's Oval Office is like Grand Central Station. People try briefing him and someone comes in and interrupts him. People just sort of walk in without being previously announced in any meaningful way.

I use my computer to take notes more and more because my handwriting is so bad. I'm a lefty and it's getting worse and worse.

I think that Twitter is a useful reporting tool sometimes, but an utterly toxic swamp that nonetheless I engage in more than I probably should.

Twitter is now an anger video game for many users. It is the only platform on which people feel free to say things they'd never say to someone's face.

I have gotten anti-Semitic mail pieces to my home that I have had to try to keep out of my children's eyes. I've gotten a lot. But whatever - this is what happens in the Internet age.

Albert Camus, which Esposito pointed to during a negotiation: "Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

When Trump in 2006 suddenly paid more than $10 million in cash to buy a huge patch of land in northeast Scotland, his mother's native country, with the goal of building a golf resort, it wasn't clear where he had come up with the money to do so.

A Marine to the end, Kelly declined for years after he left to be openly critical of the commander in chief except for occasional remarks amid extreme circumstances. But several people who spoke with him said he described Trump as a "fascist," uninterested in history or geography, and uniquely unfit for the job of leading a constitutional democracy.

Yet there it was: reflecting on the meaning of having been president of the United States, his first impulse was not to mention public service, or what he felt he'd accomplished, only that it appeared to be a vehicle for fame, and that many experiences were only worth having if someone else envied them.

When Stone created an outfit called Citizens United Not Timid (CUNT) during the 2008 presidential campaign, Bossie's group sued him. Stone, maintaining it was a gag, settled the lawsuit.

Trump revised history to claim he had a plan in place for withdrawal and that if only Joe Biden had followed it, everything would have been fine. "The Taliban was totally under control" while he was president, Trump insisted. "There was no problem. We could have left. We could have taken a year, two years, or two months. They would have never been anywhere near us. They were not fucking around with me.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Barrack told him that if he continued on this path he would create problems for a post–White House life, in which he was going to face existing investigations without the institution of the presidency behind him. Barrack asked him to think about his business, about everything he had built over the decades and the support he still needed.