“My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. A...” — John J. McLaughlin Quote

My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.

There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.

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

Despite the occasional high decibel level, 'The Group' is not a shout fest. I don't simply want panelists with opposing opinions trying to out-shout one another.

I predict that as warm weather returns to Europe, so will the flood of Middle Eastern immigrants.

A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.

On the estate tax, if you look at the couple of groups who are the biggest advocates for repealing the estate tax, it really is the pass-through business, and it's the farmers.

I think, for a while, there was a kind of debate about whether you could bring back Negro and reclaim it, and then it was black versus African American; now I have noticed in conversation that black people will use all three terms depending on context. I don't advocate one term.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.