If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.
Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.
I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
Only votes talk, everything else walks.
I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
