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I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.