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

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

" I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency. "

" My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "