Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

Courage is a mutual thing.

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

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.

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.

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