Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

Barack Obama didn't get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In order to reach the broadest number of people you have to speak to their interests as broadly as you can.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.