Mary Matalin

Chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, since March, 2005.

[on hearing the plane hitting the Pentagon on 9/11]: There was a real concern in getting information about the casualties at the Defense Department. At first, we thought Secretary Rumsfeld had been hit, then we heard he was pulling bodies out of the rubble. We couldn't quite get a location on the Secretary of Defense.