It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

All I'm armed with is research.