I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.