It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]

Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

It's not the questions that get us in trouble - it's the answers.