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

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.

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.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

I like to think I'm not stupid often, tonight proves that when I am, I do it in a big way.

Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

I'm old enough to never say never. I never had a grand plan with what I was going to do. There are some movies that I would like to be involved with, but I'm trying to be a working actor.

When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence.

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.

I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not kill them.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.