Those Of You Watching And

On Capitol Hill, The Republican-controlled House Voted Mostly Along Party Lines Tonight To Pass President Bush's Federal Budget Blueprint. This Includes His Big Tax Cut Plan, Partly Bankrolled, Critics Say, Through Cuts In Many Federal Aid Programs For Children And Education.

There Was A Time In South Africa That People Would Put Flaming Tires Around Peoples' Necks If They Dis-sented. And In Some Ways The Fear Is That You Will Be Necklaced Here, You Will Have A Flaming Tire Of Lack Of Patriotism Put Around Your Neck. Now It Is That Fear That Keeps Journalists From Asking The Toughest Of The Tough Questions... And Again, I Am Humbled To Say, I Do Not Except Myself From This Criticism.

Turn The Lights Down, The Party Just Got Wilder.

(obama's) A Nice Person, He's Very Articulate This Is What's Been Used Against Him, But He Couldn't Sell Watermelons If It, You Gave Him The State Troopers To Flag Down The Traffic.

This Much We Know: Journalism Is Not A Precise Science. It's, On Its Best Day, Is A Crude Art. We Make Mistakes; I Make Mistakes. With More Than 50 Years As A Journalist, I Have At Least Had The Opportunity To Blow More Stories, Make More Mistakes Than Maybe Anybody In Television.