The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

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