My conscience is clear.

I’m not saying Senator Mitchell’s report is entirely wrong. I am saying Brian McNamee’s statements about me are wrong. Let me be clear: I have never taken steroids or HGH.

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice – a civic responsibility.

If you go to the ball game, you don’t need to read the game story.

People can say anything they want to. If they don’t want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It’s not something I’m going to worry about, I’m sorry.

If we’re going to have debates, let’s have real debates.

As I say, I’m a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don’t exist if there isn’t first a story.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That’s just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

If McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Clemens an innocent victim. If Clemens isn’t telling the truth, then he has acted shamefully and has smeared McNamee. I don’t think there’s anything in between.