If you think is was an accident, applaud.

I'm tired of getting made fun of. The reason I took on The New York Times as ferociously as I did is that I'm tired of being the little icon that people stick pins in, the whipping boy for everything that's gone wrong in this business. Whatever my excess, I think that I've been trumped in many areas by others.

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters

I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.

The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.