An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.