Brit Hume Quotes

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. What we hear people saying is thank you for being fair; thank you for being balanced.

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.

I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus... That is really an important job.

Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.