My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.