It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you're totally unbiased and objective.

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.

The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.

We have more voices from more points of view on the C-SPAN call-in show than I've heard anywhere else. You can literally tune us in every day and hear it all. You can't control it, and you shouldn't control it.

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

You can't guarantee everything's going to be televised.

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it.

I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.

Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.

To me, success is seeing that justice is done.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.

My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre.

I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

I would welcome processes that eliminate the need for doctors. We bottle-neck things around doctors, and it's not a good way of doing things.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.

The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.

Television is what made Its a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.