Brian Stelter Quotes

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

The next time a news outlet complains about the state of our political rhetoric or the uninformed U.S. voter, we should promptly point them to the video of Ashley Parker raucous in a Polish cemetery or Philip Rucker's diatribes on party invitations.

Questions about Trump's psychological stability have mounted throughout his presidency.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

We're quick to describe politicians whose views we find extreme or whose behavior seems odd as 'crazy,' and perhaps anyone who runs for president in some sense is. But I've long wondered whether Newt Gingrich merits that designation in a more clinical sense.

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

I don't believe for a second 'X Factor' would deliberately put someone through who wasn't mentally stable.

Before I was on medication, the mania was so bad that I couldn't concentrate, so although I'd feel very creative, I could never really finish a piece of work because my mind was moving so fast.

I'm not sure I buy the argument that the public is more mistrustful - the debate will always garner that kind of traction because anything the BBC does is always in the spotlight.

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

Sadly, the mainstream media doesn't like to linger very long on news stories that might present President Trump in a positive light.

You only have one thing in your mind, and that is your mind; once that's gone, your whole reality is distorted.

I guess you could say I'm a little crazy.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.

My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.

It's interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets tend to draw a lot less media fire than apparently distasteful comments from the Left against hard targets. That's one of the threads that runs through the show and that people hopefully pick up on.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

We're clear," she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.