I don't want to compare President Obama and President Trump on these issues, because they're different, and the scale isn't even remotely the same. But President Obama said things that weren't true and got away with it more for a variety of reasons, and one is the media was much more supportive of him.
Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.
It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.
Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.
What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?
I think that I'm doing my job, and it's nice to be recognized, but I also know that a lot of the people who are happy with me now are not going to be happy with me in four to eight years and that I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.
CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.
I think there is room for improvement for all of the media, and that certainly, and especially, includes me.
I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.
Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.
Exercise has its hazards. Runners are sidelined by shinsplints, freestylists by swimmer's ear, and who hasn't heard of tennis elbow? But the fitness buff of the '90s has a far greater worry. StairMaster Butt.
'MAD Magazine' put out a book that was a collection of Trump cartoons, and they asked me to do the forward because they knew that I was a fan because I'd done stories and tweeted about 'MAD.' So I did the forward and asked them if I could do a cartoon. They let me, and I did caricatures of myself and Wolf Blitzer.
We all know members of the House and Senate - especially the House - who are just crazy and say things that aren't true, Democrats and Republicans.
It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'
I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.
I'm a collaborative person - it makes me better - and sometimes taking that collaboration to Twitter is helpful.
I get a lot of heat from the Left, which is bizarre. I get a lot of heat from the Right, too, but the vitriol is from the Left.
Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.
My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.
