I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you’re a Democrat. Sometimes that’s good, obviously, and sometimes that’s obviously bad. But in the news business, there’s no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

I try not to watch the news. Too depressing.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda

I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

The best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.

Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn’t want you to know something, it won’t be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.