The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.

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

We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.