Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer..

Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hur….

I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow..

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contracto….

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make..

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people..

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will ….

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father ….

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much t….

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm intere….

A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone's life on every single story that he covers. It's not like being a sports reporter. That's a….

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free..

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Chris….

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you..

But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other pe….

Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can't trump bad policy..

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our li….

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I….

When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'..

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened..

But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put ….