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.

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.

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

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

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

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

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.