Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.

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.

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.

Be an instrument, a multiplier of God's blessings.

My mind gets into a verbal mode.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.