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

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.

George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.