Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

Without [hatred] Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.

Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'

Apparently, the people in the [George W.] Bush administration who wanted to confront me on this could not spell my name correctly. They wanted to send a series of emails thinking that perhaps MSNBC was perhaps favorable to the Bush administration. They thought that they could send me a series of questions or talking points to disprove Joe Wilson with.

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

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