When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.