If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.