I was never promised any special treatment or consideration for fingering star players. I was never coerced to provide information against anyone. All that I was ever told to was to tell the truth to the best of my ability. And that is what I have done.

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

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

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

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.