You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right..

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism..

I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience..

When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impressio….

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked..

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again..

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me..

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?.

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is ther….

You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried a….

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an i….

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We liv….

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the….

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today..

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism i….

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that w….

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people..

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget..

The American people can always be trusted with the information..

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip..