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" The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing. "

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" I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that. "

" What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous. "

" What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. "

" I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture. "

" You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button. "

" Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people. "

" I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit. "

" Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him. "

" Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style. "

" I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions. "

" In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise. "

" My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old. "

" I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends. "

" My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right. "

" I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write. "

" Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away. "

" Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order. "

" What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve. "

" The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory. "

" It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. "

" I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes. "

" 1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. "

" I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup. "

" The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there. "

" The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up. "

" John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment. "

" What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty. "

" Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters. "

" I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience. "

" It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. "

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