Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

There is a price for everything in life. Even what you receive freely has already been paid for by someone.

If the truth is Impermissible, then we'll eventually be breaking all the rules.

I am so busy loving life, I have no time to hate.

You don't have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

If you're in a safe Republican district, say Congressman [ Gus] Bilirakis,you probably don't have much to worry about which is why you can get away with talking about death panels.

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

I played in a basketball league until I was 40 years old. I played every Monday night and the guys would say, "You take him out, and you'll see us afterwards."

Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.

You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change.