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I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.