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" The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do. "

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" I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out. "

" I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. "

" We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces. "

" All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. "

" If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth. "

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" It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. "

" I travel a lot. I'm on the move. "

" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "

" I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out. "

" If I had any humility I would be perfect. "

" I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. "

" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "

" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "

" War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money. "

" I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it. "

" The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. "

" At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent. "

" I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "

" It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels. "

" Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite. "

" I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news. "

" I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. "

" I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses. "

" Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. "

" The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. "

" Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again. "

" I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack. "

" When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit. "

" Sports is like a war without the killing. "

" I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on. "