You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

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.

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.

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

Freedom - that word that the human spirit feeds: that no one can explain, and anyone who does not understand.

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

I'm not a role model or the poster child for how to do anything.

Never go to war unless your willing to win.

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.