As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.
Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?'
It wasn't until 1973 that Congress and journalists began to investigate 'Operation Menu,' around the same moment that the Watergate scandal was unfolding.
I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.
One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.
It has always puzzled me, in my business, that people think they have to answer questions, no matter how disagreeable or dangerous, just because they were asked. Of course, we journalists would be out of business if they didn't.
I could satisfy the French press any day, by saying that we entirely agreed with their view.
Asking presidential candidates whether they support or would change past foreign policy decisions is the most common line of questioning among members of the media. It's also the most pointless.
Marty Baron, 'The Post's executive editor, stopped me in the elevator lobby late one debate night and suggested we look into the Trump Foundation specifically. I also became interested in researching Trump's broader history of charity.
It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'
I have said many times that racist and bigots are not welcome in our party... The journalists who don't want to recognize this and keep coming back with questions of bigotry can just take a hike.
The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.
Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.
I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.
I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.
As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.
I'm doing all these interviews with the British press, the Italian press, and others. They all want to talk about this stuff. I don't have a stance; I don't have a go-to thing to say about any of this.
We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.
I'd love to sit down with Barbara Walters. She's always asking people about their personal lives. I'd like to see how she likes it.
God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.
One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.
Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening.
The media's job is to question a premise.
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.
