A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

I'm not saying Senator Mitchell's report is entirely wrong. I am saying Brian McNamee's statements about me are wrong. Let me be clear: I have never taken steroids or HGH.

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.

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

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.