This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

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.

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.