John McLaughlin

In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!

Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.

Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I love 'The Office' format so much that I wanted to close it out.