In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

Your soul is bigger than your programming.

To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all.

Some people are hard to forget, but some people are hard to remember.

Doctors is all swabs.

I think social media has taken over for our generation. It's a big part of our lives, and it's kind of sad.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

My #1 goal is to make videos that I'd want to watch.

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.