My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

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.

When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

But what are loyalty and caring really worth?""To me? Everything.

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

Gram for gram, spirulina could be the most nutritious and well-rounded food on the planet, which stores almost indefinitely.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.