Bill Gates Quotes

CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective.

I would die in a ditch for the impartiality of the BBC.

I studied to be a car mechanic. That was my plan B. Servicing cars and changing tyres in Finland.

More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

I have motor oil running through my veins.

I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.

I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

You read some columnists in the newspapers; you have to wonder who they are really working for. You can see they have an agenda.

I have never seen anyone at CNN ever say, 'Boy, here's how we're going to deal with this today to put this guy down and elevate this guy up.' I've never seen it.