In Seeking Truth You Have To Get

For Many Years, I Did My Best To Report On The Issues Of The Day In As Objective A Manner As Possible. When I Had My Own Strong Opinions, As I Often Did, I Tried Not To Communicate Them To My Audience.

I Think That Being Liberal, In The True Sense, Is Being Nondoctrinaire, Nondogmatic, Noncomitted To A Cause But Examining Each Case On Its Merits. Being Left Of Center Is Another Thing; It's A Political Position. I Think Most Newspapermen By Definition Have To Be Liberal; If They're Not Liberal, By My Definition Of It, Then They Can Hardly Be Good Newspapermen.

The Invasion Of Iraq Was Illegal From The Start.

There Is A Compulsion That Is Perhaps The Heart Of Life's Meanings, This Marvelous Mystery Of Blood Ties That Brings Joy Whenever A New Family Member Comes On The Scene.

It Is Not The Reporter's Job To Be A Patriot Or To Presume To Determine Where Patriotism Lies. His Job Is To Relate The Facts.