It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

I think there is a mainstream media. CNN is mainstream media, and the main, ABC, CBS, NBC are mainstream media. And I think it's just essentially to make the point that we are largely in the center without particular axes to grind, without ideologies which are represented in our daily coverage, at least certainly not on purpose.

Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.