I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.

[But he was tripped up by a question posed by Lehrer on how he would handle the difficulties and uncertainties of the presidency. The presidency Lehrer said, is] 90 percent having to deal with the unexpected. ... crisis under fire.

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

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.