 Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall. |
| Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio. |
| Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that. |
| Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids. |
| The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed. |
| A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever. |
| You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times. |
| We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit. |
| The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton. |
| I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life. |
| When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that. |
| Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask. |
| Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep. |
| What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? |
| In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country. |
| After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really. |
| Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened. |
| You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that. |
| I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. |
| Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express. |
