As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged through the streets....What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find.

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.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.