We have been criticized, a little bit to my surprise, by people who think I was not enough pro-war. That is simply not the way I think of this role. This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

Are we out of step with the administration because we do not comport completely to their political point of view?... So they criticize us for it. It goes with …

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

The rising power of the United States in world affairs ... requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism.... Our job in…

But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it-everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'-you have…

Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!