I think that I'm doing my job, and it's nice to be recognized, but I also know that a lot of the people who are happy with me now are not going to be happy with me in four to eight years and that I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.

President Obama was not friendly to the press, but the press was very friendly to President Obama.

They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about.

It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

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

My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.