Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.