“My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.”

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.

If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.

A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.

I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.

I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’

When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.

They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself.

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.

The worst part is staying in the room after you’ve broken the news, so that you’re forced to be there when someone’s life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn’t bother them – such people are not to be trusted.

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.

It is funny, I don’t feel old enough to give advice… But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that’s the only way you’re going to improve.

Maybe some of today’s papers have too many ‘feel-good’ features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.