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

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.

People essentially like local news better than network news.

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You can't do it alone. Two things joined to a third thing are joined to each other. A is united to B and C is united to B. Therefore, A and C are united.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

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I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

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All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.