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You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

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'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I started as a print reporter.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.

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