"I think the new rules on torture didn't apply in my case...She was clearly trying to goad me, start an argument...She had this Upper East side, psychoanalyst mentality."

Quotes from the conversation between Roger Ailes and Brit Hume when you click below...

Brit Hume:

On how he stays fair and balanced: "The best example was the mad cow disease story...People didn't know that you can't get it from meat. That was an important fact and part of the balance but it was being under emphasized."

"You have to do stories that no one else is doing...like the oil for food scandal...they simply weren't covering it."

"You can't use The Washington Post and The New York Times as a template ...you have to look at them as a way to find a different way to cover the stories."

"We have to be different and better."

Hume, on the draw of joining FNC: "They wanted to do fair and balanced news." He also said that, with Ailes and Murdoch, "I don't know how it wouldn't succeed....It wasn't a hard decision to come here."

"You have to read the mainstream media with a critical eye."

On Drudge: "An amazingly low-tech website."

"I don't think that, in my life, I'm going to be a star on the Internet."

Called MSNBC NBC's "stepchild." "NBC hasn't integrated MSNBC the way they could have."

Network newscasts: "Their glory days are over...the writing is on the wall."

"To suggest that an American journalist working in American should somehow not wear an American flag pin is a remarkable assertion...It is not a symbole for the Republican Party or George Bush. It is a symbol for the country as a whole...We can't pretend that we're a neutral person operating out of space somewhere, looking down on planet Earth. We're Americans. Make no mistake about it: I love this country and I'm not a bit ashamed to say that."

"Journalists have a universal set of views on everything from the economy to taxes to abortion to the military to the environment..."

On Ted Turner: "First he lost his network, then he lost his mind."

"I'm pro-choice on flag pins. This is America. Do what you want. That offended some people, which is exactly what I aimed to do because those people need to be offended."

"We don't get up every morning assuming that this country is guilty of something."

"If this country goes down, the world goes down, make no mistake about it."

"Whenever I hear people say how bad this country is, I say, 'Show me pictures of people trying to leave who can't.' That'd be a hell of a story. Until I see that, I refuse to believe it's a bad country."

"As long as we stick to 'we report, you decide' we'll be fine."