People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

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.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

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'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

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.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

I started as a print reporter.

Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

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.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

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'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

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.

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

A debate has one purpose one purpose only and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates and thats it.

Theres 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.

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

As we begin this debate, I am confident that we will hear the supporters of this bill argue in the name of Ronald Reagan that this research is consistent with his long-held views about the sanctity of life.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.