Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.
The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.
If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.
The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.
Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.
I told the truth about steroids and human growth hormone. I injected those drugs into the body of Roger Clemens at his direction. Unfortunately, Roger has denied this and has led a full-court attack on my credibility
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
No two people see things the same way.
People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.
Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.
There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.
I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.
Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.
I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
There are very few really stark black and white stories.
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.
Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.
I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.
