The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

War settles nothing.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

The press is the enemy.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

I like a drama.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.