Brian Lamb Quotations

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

We did receive, late last week, their response and their plan. We are evaluating it to see if they are compliant. We will be talking to them. We wanted to see their plan and also how they will execute it.

We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life wrote to us, including actresses, stand-up comics, parents and students. What's clear after reading the entries is the impact that call-ins have had on the political conversation on the network.

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

Lamb's show was the most straitlaced stream-of-consciousness bit of showbiz on a rigidly anti-showbiz outlet in the history of entertainment.

We protested and appealed to let our cameras in, but Scalia won and we were kept out, ... Albany is a political town, too, and this shouldn't come as a surprise.

When you add it all up, I've committed about 1.8 years of my life to reading books for the series. It's time to use all those hours in other ways.

Even though their car didn't do so well, it was a tremendously creative design.

It's one of the most exciting things we do. There are a lot of sharp people in education and we are able to show that. The best part is the spontaneity of it all.

That's a selling point for me. So many more students will have a lot more access to classes.

In May, we could see things were going from beginning to end, ... But it was a fragile system, and we had to harden it so it could handle the rigors of daily use.

Chemical engineers aren't really cool. People enjoy what they study and want to do something cool with it.