Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.
Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.
In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.
I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk.
I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.
You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.
Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.
When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.
Killing is the payoff of war.
If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.
For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.
We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.
