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"I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days."
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"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?"

"But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us."

"But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make."

"There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be."

"My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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