I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

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.

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

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.

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.

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

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.