It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.

I remain the luckiest guy I know.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.

What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away...

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.