"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news"

"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"

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

"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"

"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"

"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on"

"I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening"

"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"

"I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life"

"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day"