A biography for Shepard Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.”
“We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.”
“Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.”
“When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.”
“We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.”
“We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.”
“I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.”
“There has to be news at a place called Fox News.”
“In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.”
“I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.”
“Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.”
“I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.”
“Oh, I don't talk about God.”
“I'm a journalist, I run to the fire, that's what we do.”
“Working for the Man seemed really good to me.”
“I've always been fascinated by weather.”
“I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.”
“I don't own a car.”
“The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.”
“I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.”