It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

Where once such devices were relegated to appropriate times, now they've become necessities. The other day I watched a kid come off the school bus listening to music on his headphones, oblivious to the traffic zooming past him. And I can't even begin to count the times I've thought pet owners were talking to their dogs while taking them for a walk when, in reality, they were blabbing on their cell phones. It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past, ... It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience as opposed to just when you're jogging.

I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.