I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.
Above all I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling I have found is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
In the last few years the very idea of telling the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.
What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
It takes years for me to trust I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.
Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.