Mo Rocca Quotations

George W. Bush and Al Gore are doing foreign-language tv ads. Two men who say very little in English are now saying absolutely nothing in Spanish.

Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

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

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

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

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

Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.