I wanted to better inform the world.

The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.