Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

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.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

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

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

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.