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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

When something is over, it is over ...

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

When I want to entertain entertainers, I call Jason Randal!

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

In this nation, leadership is dollars.