Shepard Smith

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

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.

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

Not even my parents know how I vote.

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

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

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

I've always been fascinated by weather.

I don't own a car.

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

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

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

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.

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

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

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

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.

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.

I like stories that affect families.

Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.

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

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