I have the necessary lack of tact.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.