I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, 'liberal bias' in the media, I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about.

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big-money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the air was thick today with accusations from people who believe that's exactly what happened.