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

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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. "

" My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s. "

" I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture. "

" The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose. "

" 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. "

" Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing. "

" 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. "

" When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was? "

" 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. "

" I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.' "

" 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. "

" You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. "

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" I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.' "

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

" The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved. "

" We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color. "

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

" While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. "

" My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right. "

" 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?' "

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