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

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

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

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

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