Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Women are more emotional than men, so they must attach emotion to their memories.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

The last time Congress seriously addressed the notion of creating a way to keep track of America's guns was 1968.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on the shores of Alaska's North Slope.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

The ESPN complex is a 255-acre playland, as beautiful and perfect as the Magic Kingdom itself down the road - except it's sports!

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

People assume cheering in the NFL is mostly about a girl trying to snag herself a big, beefy, stinkin' rich football player. That is not the case.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Neither Neil Armstrong nor Michael Collins had a mental breakdown after returning from the moon.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

I'm not a sportswriter.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Whether we buy into the rhetoric or not, one thing has been made clear: Illegal immigration is a problem reaching a breaking point, and something must be done.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Dead at 50. Mike Webster! Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. 'Iron Mike,' legendary Steelers center for fifteen seasons.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Coal mines make the news only when they explode, collapse, kill. It's exciting! Tragedy! Fodder for a cable-news frenzy.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Bob Dole is not a bitter man. That part is jarring. His life was hard.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Almost as soon as it aired, 'Late Night' became one of the most buzzed-about shows on television.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

'Affable' is the word that often comes up from reporters, even staunch critics, who meet Lou Dobbs for the first time.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas