If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.