Quotes By Shepard Smith

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Not even my parents know how I vote.

I like stories that affect families.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't own a car.

I've always been fascinated by weather.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

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

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.

When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the one doing the news. It's my show, and there's no place for opinion on my show. It's uninteresting to me.

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.