When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.

The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can, hopefully, awaken people and change minds. I think it depends on who’s piloting the plane.

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not.

I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself