I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

I'm a collaborative person - it makes me better - and sometimes taking that collaboration to Twitter is helpful.

You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.

The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.

What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?

I think that I'm doing my job, and it's nice to be recognized, but I also know that a lot of the people who are happy with me now are not going to be happy with me in four to eight years and that I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.

I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.

'MAD Magazine' put out a book that was a collection of Trump cartoons, and they asked me to do the forward because they knew that I was a fan because I'd done stories and tweeted about 'MAD.' So I did the forward and asked them if I could do a cartoon. They let me, and I did caricatures of myself and Wolf Blitzer.

I'm not a member of a political party, and I feel very, very comfortable being independent. Even if I weren't a journalist - if I were doing whatever - I would be an independent.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I can be fairly boring.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm not a particularly good liar.

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

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

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.

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.

My back isn't great.

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.

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.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

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

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

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

My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.

I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did not go with my strip.

I think it's important to have as diverse of a feed as possible.

There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to see the Trump presidency eroding these lines.

As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.

I definitely pack coffee if I'm going someplace where it might not be available. When I went to Afghanistan in 2011, I brought a bunch of instant coffee. I didn't need to do that, of course, because army people drink industrial-strength coffee and have it going 24/7.

I'm an everyday guy - I'm a try-to-write-at-least-15-minutes-every-day-if-not-an-hour-or-two kind of guy. I write in Google docs so that wherever you go, you have access to it.