At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.

There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

The best way for children to learn grammar is by making them habitual readers.

I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.

I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.

At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?