I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.