To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

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

The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.

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

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.