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" 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. "

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" My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator. "

" 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. "

" After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries. "

" People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. "

" Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee. "

" I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out. "

" I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction. "

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

" In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private. "

" While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful. "

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

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" 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. "

" Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way. "

" Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away. "

" What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty. "

" You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss. "

" 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. "

" The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s. "

" 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. "

" I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women's movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a child get back to the workplace and still fulfill maternal roles? "

" The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there. "

" We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain. "

" I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me. "

" I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories. "

" Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him. "

" I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get a hold of whoever I wanted to. What I learned is that you really have to get proactive and manage your case. "

" 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. "

" I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time. "

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

" 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. "