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 wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

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

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.

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.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.