Journalist Quotes

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

I try to tell the truth.

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

I have never been one to look beyond today.

I don't care what anybody thinks.

I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.

I am not insecure about being a journalist.

Canadians are so easily wounded.

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.