Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.

I think Hillary Clinton's been's depressing democratic turnout.

It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.