I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness many, many years ago. Once you get started in television, people associate you with your physical appearance - and that includes the mustache. So I can't shave it off now. If I did, I'd have to answer too much mail.

A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

This opens the door on another chapter of history.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.