I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

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.

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

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.