Turn The Lights Down, The Party Just

It's The Ratings, Stupid, Don't You Know? They've Got Us Putting More Fuzz And Wuzz On The Air, Cop-show Stuff.

The American Dream Is One Of The Greatest Ideas In The History Of Human Achievement . . . It Thrives Today In An Age When Its Core Components Of Freedom And Opportunity Are Open To More Americans Than Ever Before. It Holds A Real, Identifiable Place In The American Heart And Mind, And It Informs The Aspirations Of Everyone From Farmers To Software Developers, From Detectives To Bankers, From Soldiers To Social Workers . . . It Defines Us As A People, Even As We Add To Its Meaning With Each New Chapter In Our National Experience And Our Individual Actions.

This Much We Know: Journalism Is Not A Precise Science. It's, On Its Best Day, Is A Crude Art. We Make Mistakes; I Make Mistakes. With More Than 50 Years As A Journalist, I Have At Least Had The Opportunity To Blow More Stories, Make More Mistakes Than Maybe Anybody In Television.

Ratings Don't Last. Good Journalism Does.

He [mikhail Gorbachev] Has, As Many Great Leaders Have, Impressive Eyes....there's A Kind Of Laser-beam Stare, A Forced Quality, You Get From Gorbachev That Does Not Come Across As Something Peaceful Within Himself. It's The Look Of A Kind Of Human Volcano, Or He'd Probably Like To Describe It As A Human Nuclear Energy Plant.