News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.

Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.

It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS.

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

CBS is the largest out-of-home advertising company in the U.S.

How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.

Regret is a waste of time.

The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

Every setback has a major comeback.

Disneyland is Vegas for children.