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" I'm not a member of a political party, and I feel very, very comfortable being independent. Even if I weren't a journalist - if I were doing whatever - I would be an independent. "

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" We've gone through many different permutations of coffee-making, from grinding our own beans to the regular drip to an iced coffee maker. "

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" Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand. "

" What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter? "

" I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do. "

" I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.' "

" We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard. "

" I still think of myself as a Philadelphian. I still root for the Philadelphia teams. Other than my house, I still feel most at home in terms of cities when I'm in Philly. "

" Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map. "

" A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious. "

" It matters to people that the president tell them the truth. "

" I think there is room for improvement for all of the media, and that certainly, and especially, includes me. "

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Room

Improvement

" If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to the table to talk about it. But there's a bunch of stuff that they need to get caught up on before we get to a comedian at the White House dinner. "

" I have very vivid memories of my parents talking about Nixon, my mom watching Watergate on the black-and-white set in the living room. The mayor at the time in Philadelphia was a guy named Frank Rizzo - a Democrat, a real bully, a racist. "

" My mom is a hero in a lot of ways because she's the most empathetic and kind person I've ever met. "

" Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value. "

" McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling lies, you know, McCarthy was doing that. At the time, the media, Democrats, and Republicans were all paralyzed - not all, but most of them were paralyzed. They didn't know how to deal with this. "

" You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump. "

" You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow. "

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" My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up. "