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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.