There's an awful lot of superfluous news, the pervert of the day and someone that shot seven people at a fraternity party. Who needs it all?

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.