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.
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.
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 the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
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.
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.
First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.
Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.
Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the...
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
