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 President's very shrewd

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

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

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.

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.