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.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

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

You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.

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?

There is no democracy without journalism.