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In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.
The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.
I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.
There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.
The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.
I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.
The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.
I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.
I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.
What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.
Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
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.
Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.
I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.
Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.
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.
My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate.
It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.
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.
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. Set a standard, and stay faithful to it.
In our family, where we began with no money, we like to say that we have discovered that God invented money so those who have it can help others.
I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.
there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.
One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become your friends.
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.
I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.
Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.
What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.
I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.
John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.
Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.
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.
I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.
Because I lived in construction towns, we had a lot of workers who came from the South. They were all white, and, sorry to say, a number of them were pretty redneck.
Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.
I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.
Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.
ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.
There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.
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.