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 don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.
— Roger Ailes
I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.
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.
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 golf? I wish I had that kind of time.
I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.
I quit politics because I hated it.
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.
I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.
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 on his choice of words.
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.
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 fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.
Television and I grew up together.
You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.
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 them.
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.
There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.
My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.
I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.
