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.

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

So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

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.

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.