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.

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 American people can always be trusted with the information.

When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.

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.

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

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.