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.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

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

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

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