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

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.

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

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.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.