The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.