Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It’s better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

I don’t have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn’t do my job.

There is a – deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there’s a laziness in me.

Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I’ll hire them. If you give me a big name that’s out there, that’s floating around and wants work, I’d be happy to hire...

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don’t care. We would question him...

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

Obama’s the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn’t public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and...

Television and I grew up together.

I quit politics because I hated it.

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

My doctor told me that I’m old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

I can’t stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there’s something bigger than us. I don’t think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I’m at peace. When it comes, I’ll be...

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.

You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven’t reached their potential. I think I’m pretty good at developing talent.

Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country – my dad was a factory guy – I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I...

We’re not programming to conservatives. We’re just not eliminating their point of view.