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.

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?

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.

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

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.

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.