Journalist Quotes

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

I want to democratize business news.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you.

The composing room has an unlimited supply of periods available to terminate short, simple sentences.

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.

I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.