People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.