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" It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. "

" 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. "

" The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory. "

" I'm in remission. I need to get my physical conditioning to a higher level. I was always very fit. I need to get back to where I am very confident in my ability to bike a long way. "

" 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. "

" I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang! "

" In the seasons of life, I have had more than my share of summers. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that. "

" 1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. "

" I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today. "

" During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe. "

" The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing. "

" 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. "

" It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. "

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" The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. "

" We don't play the celebrity business in our family. "

" As young parents of three girls, living in California during the late Sixties and early Seventies, Meredith and I couldn't help but be aware of the rising level of dialogue, debate, commentary, and proclamations about the place of women in society and about how to raise females in light of this raised consciousness. "

" I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government... completes its investigation.' "

" Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away. "

" Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order. "