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.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

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.

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

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.

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.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.