Bernard Goldberg

A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.

I know real people, whose names I could tell you, people I know who have said 'I've stopped buying the New York Times.' Why? Because their editorial position has filtered, has leached into the news pages.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time; nobody buys it anymore.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.