In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

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.

If you have read 6, 000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

A lot of the mythology that sprung up around Haile Selassie, it's not like something he asked for, having people deify him. That's pretty heavy. I don't know what you do in that situation.

Faith is never a matter of can or cannot, but rather, will or will not

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

I'd never met anyone so vibrant or alive. He moved like light.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.