I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.

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

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.

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

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

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.