I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

Prolong not the pastInvite not the futureDo not alter your innate wakefulnessFear not appearancesThere in nothing more than this

If you don’t believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

Recognizing the Savior's spiritual light begins with our willingness to believe.

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.