My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school..

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me..

My personal opinion is that guns kill people..

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me..

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but ….

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes,….

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there..

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You did….

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make someth….

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I….

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!.

So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the dama….

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news bu….

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawf….

In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake..

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio..

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops.….

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do..

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny..

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college….

My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided….