Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

On SUCCESS: "Life Rewards the DO-ers and WOW-makers." (TM)

how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast.

The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy basically.

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

Who needs a handgun when you've got a semiautomatic?

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.