When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.

America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran station, Egypt station, Syria station, and all we asked of them were three things: Keep your palms open, your prices low and don't bother Israel too much, and you can do whatever you want to your own people.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.