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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

The President's very shrewd

The press ... traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.