Really, my family is my strength and I realize that and I am leaning on it.

AEW loves what I'm doing with Bellator and Bellator loves what I'm doing with AEW.

I would love to fight Fedor Emelianenko in Russia, maybe we can make that happen.

I think 'We the People' is an example of why pro wrestling is so cool because it was a storyline that started out very political and very controversial and very nasty. It really evolved into a movement of the people, not just American people, but people everywhere.

Jumping into something new is always challenging with the schedule and the routine and when you can train, and fit that into your life that you already have right now.

Going through life is always scary doing something new, at the same time it is very exciting.

I believe competition makes everyone better.

I love being a dad.

I love being a family man.

WWE really likes to keep its fans on the edge of their seats and on their toes.

The more you boo me the better I'm going to wrestle. You don't like me? So what. It's a lot of fun to work like that and wrestle with that mindset.

I like to think of pro wrestling as an art, so we're artists.

I've been a competitor all my life.

Absolutely, it's awesome to be a pro wrestler.

Anyone that holds a championship you are on a list of a very few people that have had that special honor, and it is really incredible to say that no matter what you say about my wrestling career I was a World Heavyweight Champion and you can't take that away from me.

I was young; I signed with the WWE when I was 24. I was up on the main roster when I was 26 and 10 years later that is a lot of learning and a lot of growth.

It is cool to be a pro wrestler and that makes it so much better for us as pro wrestlers - who go out there and put our bodies on the line and give the fans the entertainment that they deserve.

My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.

There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.

The only politician in my family was my grandfather's grandfather, who was the mayor of Winnipeg from Jan. 1, 1917, until Jan. 5, 1917, because he lost the recount. So he was mayor of Winnipeg for four days.

Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you're on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don't necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.

My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.

Normally, at a debate or a town hall, I would be quick to say to someone, 'That was rude,' or, 'We're going to try to keep it civil here,' or, 'Let's not have personal attacks.'

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.

I have very vivid memories of my parents talking about Nixon, my mom watching Watergate on the black-and-white set in the living room. The mayor at the time in Philadelphia was a guy named Frank Rizzo - a Democrat, a real bully, a racist.

Exercise has its hazards. Runners are sidelined by shinsplints, freestylists by swimmer's ear, and who hasn't heard of tennis elbow? But the fitness buff of the '90s has a far greater worry. StairMaster Butt.

I have a wife and a son and daughter. What do I need to do to make their lives better, happier? What can I do in terms of my time or my attention given that I am very busy at work? That's a personal rule of thumb I live by from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed.

I don't want to compare President Obama and President Trump on these issues, because they're different, and the scale isn't even remotely the same. But President Obama said things that weren't true and got away with it more for a variety of reasons, and one is the media was much more supportive of him.

I still think of myself as a Philadelphian. I still root for the Philadelphia teams. Other than my house, I still feel most at home in terms of cities when I'm in Philly.

My job is to not take for granted when somebody says, 'Oh, this is all just a made-up, phony scandal,' or, 'What this person did put the U.S. government at risk.'

Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.

You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.

We all know members of the House and Senate - especially the House - who are just crazy and say things that aren't true, Democrats and Republicans.

I've conditioned myself to believe that almonds are a completely delicious snack, and that they don't taste like paper or get stuck in the back of my mouth.

I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.

CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.

We've gone through many different permutations of coffee-making, from grinding our own beans to the regular drip to an iced coffee maker.

My mom is a hero in a lot of ways because she's the most empathetic and kind person I've ever met.

I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.

If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to the table to talk about it. But there's a bunch of stuff that they need to get caught up on before we get to a comedian at the White House dinner.

Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.

Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.

It took me years to realize I wanted to be in journalism.