SHEPARD SMITH

I'm a journalist, I run to the fire, that's what we do.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.

I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.

I like stories that affect families.

I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.

I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.

I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

I've always been fascinated by weather.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.