I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'