One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

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.

Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.

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

Have you ever had any anger about President Bush - who spent his time during the Vietnam War in the National Guard - running, in effect, a campaign that does its best to diminish your service in Vietnam? You have to be at least irritated by that, or have you been?

Americans are once again looking outward

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.