“My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.”
“I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.”
“Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.”
“In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.”
“I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.”