Conversation is a really good way to get things done.

Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I have three, I'll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.

I read Nabakov for style, Mary Karr for heart and resonance of where I come from. She's from the same part of the world that I'm from. Cormac McCarthy and Hemingway, to read the masters.

I think, in the middle of the '90s, I made a couple of records where I tried to figure out what I thought the radio wanted from me. They weren't my best records by any stretch of the imagination. It didn't take me too long to figure out, 'Whoa, back up, dude. Just go back to following your heart, and it will all be OK.'

When I write a song with somebody else in mind, it's putting the cart before the horse. The way I write best is when I allow the song to tell me what it wants to be.

The chances of getting Townes to like it were very remote. When I wrote 'Til I Gain Control Again,' Townes Van Zandt sort of nodded. And I thought, 'Yes!'

When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.

I made this record in the late '80s called 'Diamonds and Dirt,' and it was a big hit. It had five No. 1's, and it was my commercial peak, really.

I don't want my son to have to collect a bunch of 'New York Times' articles to see what I was like.

I love pressure situations. I won't run for cover, and I'll try to take as much of the heat as possible. Because I feel I can stand it better than most people.

I want to prove that a fat guy can get to 100 still working.

If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.

I have a good eye for talent, and my talent performs the best.

I've never wanted my kid faced with the idea of, 'Who's the fat guy sitting in the living room? What the hell is he doing?' I figure I might as well go to work so he can say his dad works.

I view myself more as a traditionalist than a conservative. But I like the traditions, so I tend to try to keep them alive. But I'm open to any kind of political thought - I don't care - I have people that I don't agree with, and I have good friends I don't agree with, but for me personally, I'm more comfortable with the traditional stuff.

There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

Joe McGinniss will be remembered as a talented man. He changed political writing forever in 1968. We differed on many things, but he had a good heart.

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

I quit politics because I hated it.

I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.

In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint, that's bias.

Television and I grew up together.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.

I believe business news is general news.

I believe most people think the economy is very important.

I could never be elected.

Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.

The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.

Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.

Van Jones has one job: to stir up racism, whether he can find it or not.

I don't pay a lot of attention to communist infiltrators.

When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard.

A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.

The contributions being made by Latinos are extraordinary, and we need to talk about them.

Money will find you if people believe in your message.

I like Bloomberg; he's a friend.

I like Marco Rubio. But I don't know about as a vice-presidential candidate. He's a nice guy, and that role requires kicking the crap out of your opponents.

CNBC was completely in the dumper when I went there.

I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times.

I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it.

In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.

I don't tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

I'd like to hire Hillary Clinton. She looks unhappy at the State Department. She'd get ratings.

If somebody comes to me looking for a fight, they might get one.

When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.

If you're in the Senate and in the minority, you just get to give speeches and run around and raise money. If you're in the majority, you're under attack from the press every day.