Mo Rocca Quotes

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

One could say, that #‎ Masons were raised right.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

Wheel of Fortune was an important SAT prep for me.

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.

I was way too hyperactive to study for long. I would freak out, then crash, then be too tired to read or write. I really should have had less sugar.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.

Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis, ' office parties and cookies.

Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarchists.