As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.

The thicker one gets with some people the thinner they become.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.