One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.
I don't believe that people die and come back as spirits, but I think there might be some unexplained events.
If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?
In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.
Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing.
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.
I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end.
I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.
Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?
George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.
I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.
I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.
Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
