In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.