Brian Lamb Quotes

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.