I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

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.

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 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.

Self-leadership is about digging out your hidden endowment and making them known and useful to those who need it most.

The true path to success is to find your joy and share it with others.

It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time

You think you're so cool just because you can walk!

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.