One of the most important skills at [reporting] is not so much what comes out of your mouth but what you hear. To listen. When you interview people, it's very important to understand the nuances of what they're saying and to understand when they have actually made news-when they've told you something that they haven't told anybody else.

You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.

I remember when I interviewed at MSNBC, one of the first things they said to me was, 'In your tapes, you had a mustache, right?' I said, 'Yeah, I recently took it off.' I said, 'If you hire me, you get to decide if you want it or not.' They said, 'No, no, we're fine with it now.'

I think sometimes we lose sight of how powerful we are when we put someone on the news - for good or bad. It can really change people's lives.

I am honored to have this role [of the moderator], but this evening belongs to the candidates and, just as important, to the American people.

I don't expect us to cover all the issues of this campaign [2016] tonight, but I remind everyone, there are two more presidential debates scheduled. We are going to focus on many of the issues that voters tell us are most important, and we're going to press for specifics.

Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men.