We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.

As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.