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You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.

Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.

I do breakfast first, which is a small bowl of oatmeal and some sort of protein, like hard-boiled eggs. And then I work out - 40 minutes of cardio and maybe some strength training.

My back isn't great.

My first race was '99/2000. At that time, I was at 'Salon,' and I was basically their campaign reporter, so I would just jump around from race to race, candidate to candidate.

I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.

Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

I'm not a particularly good liar.

I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.

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

My job is not to be liked. My job is to tell the truth.

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

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

Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

I can be fairly boring.

People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.

It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.

Trump is most fun to draw - just a great mash of caricature-able features, from bouffant to eyebrows and scowl, to the high cheekbones and the regal pride.

It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.

It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.

I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do.

You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.

A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.

I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'