The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

I'm a human being, just like everybody else. I'm up some days and down others. Some days, I just refuse comment. If I'm feeling a little down, I won't say anything. But if I'm really up, I'll let it all hang out. I do have a slight propensity to put my foot in my mouth.

There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

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