Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.

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.

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.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

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

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.

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