More - Wolf Blitzer Quotes

Government workers get a bad rap. It's important to recognize them and what they do.

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 Government

Guess what, there's another bomb out there, it is going to kill a lot more, but I'm not telling you where it is.

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Everybody in the world should know that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,

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What I would emphasize is that he called this morally reprehensible, ... I think it's largely making a mountain out of a molehill.

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We try to use all of our resources without making it too busy or crazy out there, ... I'm sensitive to how this is going to play in Peoria, how average viewers -- say, my uncle, who may not know what Google is -- might respond.

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And in the interests of full disclosure, that NARAL ad did run here on CNN. But since NARAL yanked it, it's not running on this network, obviously, anymore. We are running the Progress for America ad defending John Roberts against such attacks. We should also note that NARAL had told us and other news organizations that its ad was running on Fox News Channel and we reported that, but a Fox spokesman tells us that NARAL never approached Fox to buy any airtime.

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 CNN

Mr. President, haven't you been watching the news? Katrina hit New Orleans five days ago. The city is flooded. Many people are homeless, desperate for food and water. They're wondering why it's taking so long for the government to send help.

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 News

It's like bringing viewers inside our control room and allowing them to move through all of that raw, incoming information with us,

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 Control

Thirty years ago, we used to do MOSes -- man-on-the-street reactions -- for big stories. This isn't all that different,

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 Man

We go to a helicopter flying over New Orleans, where they're narrating what they see -- there are people trapped on a roof somewhere. Then we bring in Tom Forman, who used to be a reporter in New Orleans. We're looking at satellite maps of the city, comparing this with video feeds that come in, then we'll zoom in on Google Earth, see what's nearby -- a university, Lake Pontchartrain -- and all of this together delivers the story in a richer, more immediate way.

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