It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

I was one of the first people to put [Ambassador] Joe Wilson on TV and, of course, exposing that entire attempt to smear him by exposing his wife [CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson]. And we sat down to do a long interview by satellite and we publicized it for several days.

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.

If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.