Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

There's no such thing as an independent person.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.

The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.