Shepard Smith Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not even my parents know how I vote.

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

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.

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

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.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

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.

Over there, there's hope. Over there, there is food and water. But you cannot go from here to there. The government will not allow you to do it. That's a fact.

We were expecting a naval armada, but that hasn't happened.

This is what the world is going be saying, though. You know, we're in bed with the White House, whatever.

That is perspective. That is all the perspective you need.

I'm excited to contribute to another platform of the FOX News brand. Radio is a fascinating medium and I'm eager to embark on this new opportunity.

I'm very excited about our product. Our product is the day's news, something for your water cooler in the morning, and something maybe to get a giggle about while you're at the office the next day. All of those things can come together in a package that doesn't have to be boring. Why take something that we find so interesting and artificially make it boring? That seems like it would be a real disservice.

I've always been fascinated by weather.

I like stories that affect families.

I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.

We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.

That is all the perspective you need!

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

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.

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you’re such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

Oh, I don't talk about God.