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"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."
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"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
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"There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock."
"But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them."
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"My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work."
"Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up."
"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."
"Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side."
"Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer."
"For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important."
"And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover."
"But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it."
"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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