Bob Edwards Quotes

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.

The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.