Quotes from Shepard Smith

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

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

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

Oh, I don't talk about God.

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

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

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.

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

I like stories that affect families.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't own a car.

I've always been fascinated by weather.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

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

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

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.

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