Brit Hume

“You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.”

“I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.”

“The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.”

“If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.”

“The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.”

“You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.”

“CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.”

“People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.”

“In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.”

“We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.”

“What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.”

“Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.”

“We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job.”

“It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.”

“If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.”

“I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.”

“You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.”