I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in.

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o