With consolidation you have fewer and fewer voices, … I always thought that the strength of radio was its diversity. It has always had so many voices. When I was a kid, the maximum amount...

The people that show up here are wanting a job, they are wanting to get back into society. The problem is that society hasn’t frequently let them back in.

You know what the compensation is before you decide to run.

If you walk in and say that we want you to hire ex-felons … the answer is probably ‘no,’ … But when you get them here and they are seeing them face-to-face, they’re seeing them...

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Now I know what a statesman is; he’s a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

People are always ready to admit a man’s ability after he gets there

Murrow would be delighted that there are 24-hour news channels, but disappointed that during prime time all that they would be doing are these shout shows and Larry King instead of doing the news,

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile

I can do whatever I want to. I’m completely independent. NPR over the years began taking itself enormously seriously — as it should. In the end I was so micromanaged that they were telling me...

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

I bet it has been 15 years. Those times are gone.

It was just migrating,

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go...

Where do you think I am going to get my morning news? Good Morning, America ?

[Edwards was set to interview Simon on April 25 when NPR execs abruptly informed Simon that he had to cancel.] Mine is the only program that Scott is banned from being on, … He can...

(Walker) contradicted himself in that very meeting,

That was just thugs sitting there, not elected officials, … somebody who affected everybody’s life, not just the lives of other criminals.

I don’t know that anybody really knows what our water situation is here, and I think that’s really frightening.

I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train,

We’re going to have a lot of money against us. But we’ll see how people respond and where they want the town to go.