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.

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

Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

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

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

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.