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There is no delete button for bigotry.

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

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

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.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

Came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over

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.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.

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

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.

Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

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.

Denial is a strong if imperfect defense.

It's not the questions that get us in trouble - it's the answers ...

Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.

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

Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.

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.

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.

Given a long enough life, cancer will eventually kill you - unless you die first of something else.

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.

When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

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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.

The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'

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.

I remain the luckiest guy I know.

What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away ...

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.

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

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

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

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

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

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

Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.

You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

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've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

Votes are something that you earn.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

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

No text message will ever replace the first kiss.

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.

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

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

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

walked everywhere. He hated getting rides.

I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.

Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

You will not get a Google alert when you fall in love.

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?'

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

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.

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.

Broderick's unit shipped out to England as replacements for the 82nd Airborne men lost in the Normandy

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

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

You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know.

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

Is that cancer curable or just treatable.

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

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.

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.

It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

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

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

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.

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

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.

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

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

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.

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.

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

His life before the triumph that defined his legacy was a reminder of the importance of patience, courage, and the absence of self-pity.

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

I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life.