I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.

I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

That is all the perspective you need!