American Quotes

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.

I don't have dating tips.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.

Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do?

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

I don't think the First Amendment trumps everything.

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

It's so hard to decide what to leave out.