I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.