You know, I've always wanted to be a young Charles Kuralt. I started in this business with just a Winnebago and a dream.

I feel your scorn, and I accept it.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

[When you have kids] you become much more - there are two things that happen. You recognize how fragile individuals are, and you recognize the strength of the general overall group, but you don't care anymore. You're just fighting for the one thing. See and then, you also recognize that everybody, then, is also somebody's child.

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

The conversation that the Senate and the House are having with the President [Barack Obama] was very similar to the conversation that [John] McCain and I were having, which was two people talking over each other and nobody really addressing the underlying issues of what kind of country do we want to be.

Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science.