*"I consider myself to be an old-fashioned liberal. I'm a liberal the way liberals used to be when they were like
John F. Kennedy and when they were like Hubert Humphrey. When they were upbeat and enthusiastic and mainstream. I am not a liberal the way liberals are today at least as exemplified by
Al Franken and
Michael Moore, where they're angry, nasty, closed minded, & not mainstream, but fringe."
*"It doesn't happen that way." - Response to a student asking if he ever met a conservative who became a liberal.
*"The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone."
*"They're responsible for the problem [of cultural meanness]." - Referring to residents of both
U.S. coasts..
*"I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys."
*"By the way, that was a long overdue suggestion" - Response to
Alan Colmes pointing out
Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator
Patrick Leahy to "f*** yourself" on the floor of the Senate