The word 'charismatic' was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, 'Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press...does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.'

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

The news media in general are liberals.

Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.