Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

I’ve had pedicures before, and I’ve had milk shakes. Just never at the same time. And it’s glorious.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.