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.

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

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind.

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