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.

It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority. I think there's a hero on every street corner in New Orleans, and I think the reporting has shown that. I think the balance has been there.

I'm of the belief that you can have only one commander-in-chief at a time, only one president at a time. President Bush is our president. Whatever he decides vis-a-vis war or peace in Iraq is what we will do as a country. And I for one will swing in behind him as a citizen ... and support whatever his decision is.

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.

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

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.