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

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

"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"

"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"

"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth"

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

"To the old, the new is usually bad news"

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

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough"

"I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles"