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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.

I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.