I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.
I remain the luckiest guy I know.
One of the things that we don’t want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we’re going to own that country.
When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you’d never see otherwise.
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
I’m not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman’s home with a drool cup.
Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.
Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Don’t be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
There is no delete button for bigotry.
We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
I like Washington a great deal. I enjoyed living there. But then I’ve enjoyed living almost everywhere I’ve ever been. I just find that it’s a different menu wherever you go.
I think it’s very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.
Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don’t fully understand what makes a rating go. I don’t know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.
Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you’ve got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.
Healthcare workers are not being shot at, obviously, but they are exposed to dangerous diseases; they lead unconventional, all-hours lives; they are mission-oriented and they work in a hierarchical environment, with the physicians on top and orderlies doing the grunt work at the bottom.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed, to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.” – From John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech, January 1961 Given.