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

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

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.