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.

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

There is no democracy without journalism.

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

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

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.