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

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.

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.

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

The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

I paint with shapes.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.

When I decided to follow my dream I had already discarded my life.