I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.

You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

In the darkness, don't doubt, blame or cry. Be the light to enlighten the whole sky.

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Medicine is so fascinating.

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.