We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

Samuel Butler

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Clement Greenberg

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.

Louis C. K.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Ronald Reagan

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

Thomas Jefferson, (letter to Mrs

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

E. L. Simpson

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

Shirley Chisholm

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bernard Berenson

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Maxim Gorky, The Zykovs, 1914

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.

Aristotle