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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.