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.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

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

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.

Courage is a mutual thing.

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.

Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.