Quotes from Mo Rocca

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

I bruise like a grape.

Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world.

I hate homemade sweaters.

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic.

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.

I was way too hyperactive to study for long. I would freak out, then crash, then be too tired to read or write. I really should have had less sugar.

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.