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If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

The American people can always be trusted with the information.

Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

There is no democracy without journalism.

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.