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 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.

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.

People essentially like local news better than network news.

Death is more universal than life

All it took was a couple weeks and boom--they sucked the crazy out of you and your soul went with it.

Let your spirit be great.

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is.

I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.