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"I just knew that was my part. I knew. I got it; I understood it. I thought I knew how to make it funny. I was basically just playing my brother, you know, who was the smart-ass in our family and who was so much smarter than everybody else. I never understood the idea of timing, but I knew that my brother was so funny that you'd wait for what he had to say... That all became part of Alex."

"Edward R. Murrow was the greatest exponent of the Bill of Rights I have ever met. Everything we did had to do with the rights of the individual under our Constitution. Every show we ever did, if you examine it carefully, you will find within it the Bill of Rights. That was his function. And we were able to do it because we were independent."

"I remember when Walter [Cronkite] said the Nixon White House was in a conspiracy to destroy the news media and I said, 'Walter, I wouldn't use the word conspiracy.' When you saw the documentation, I went back years later and apologized to him. There was a conspiracy."