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"I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
"Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past."
"I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially true about 'Price' because of my respect for the show and it's production team."
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"I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art."
"Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed."
"The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families."
"At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news."
"In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves."
"I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be."
"Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer."
"And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist."
"One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?"
"American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free."
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