Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.
Greta Van SusterenIt is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.
Greta Van SusterenPeople often ask why I left CNN.....I didn’t like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.
Greta Van SusterenI think people have made their minds up about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. They love them and hate them - love them or hate them.
Greta Van SusterenNo candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.
Greta Van SusterenWhen Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.
Greta Van SusterenI think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.
Greta Van SusterenPresident Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel?
Greta Van SusterenMy close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.
Greta Van SusterenIn an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.
Greta Van Susteren