Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but not all of us admit to mistakes made.

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

If any running event, you are absolutely alone. Nobody can help you.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty.

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue.