Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

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.

May every soul find the privilege of repentance and the grace of forgiveness.

Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.

People who go through hell in the Heaven of Earth are mostly the people who live their lives according to some religious rules!

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

Keep your lips and other body parts to yourself or you’ll be headless. (Apollymi)