Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.

I remain the luckiest guy I know.

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.

The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.