"I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news"

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"

"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"