I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

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.

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

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

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

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