You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.

Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

I quit politics because I hated it.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.

My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

Television and I grew up together.

Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.

Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Life would be infinitely better if we could be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.

I was always taught about the importance of giving back and helping those less fortunate. I think it's also incredibly rewarding.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.

If you attach to the negative behavior of others it brings you down to their level.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Because my master was this renaissance man, I wasn't just learning a fighting style, I was learning how kung fu permeates all aspects of life, from eating to healthy living to mental state.

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.

In Texas, the rangers were established on an ad hoc basis in the 1820s to protect the settlers making inroads into Spanish borderlands. Soon, Mexicans and Mexican Americans replaced Native Americans as the prime target of ranger repression.

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.

There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.

I just want to be more regular.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.