Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

... all of us talk faster than we listen.

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.