Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw...

Then I truly feel like a living being in the middle of this garden of the dead, I'm most definitely alive in here.

[Al-Qaeda's supporters] are aware of the cracks in the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their own hands

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

I don't think it's a coincidence this happened. God does things for a reason ... It's a good message for back home.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.