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I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

Most journalists are idiots.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

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

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.