It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

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.

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.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.