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Cable is a niche business. If you can own a niche, that can be a very strong business.

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

I think cable TV in the United States is amazing right now. It's reinvented television, really. What's going on in the States with some of these cable shows like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Mad Men' is amazing stuff.

I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters welcome' tag.

Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They're bad because they're monopolies (even where they are no longer legally exclusive) and because the government policies that made them monopolies rewarded lobbying over customer service.

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

The whole point of remaining on cable is to remain true to who I am. That's a bad, bad girl that got a big job.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.