Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

There is nothing like a crisis to define who you are.

Don't live the same everyday and call it a life.

I am a book lover. I buy, collect and read books.

Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

Last night I went out for Chinese. I picked up a Team USA Olympic uniform.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.