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"I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile."
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"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."
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"Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good."
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"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."
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"There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."
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"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."
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"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."
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"It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well."
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"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."
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"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."
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"I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before."
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"But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
Television
"If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show."
Rights
"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."
News
"But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in."
People
"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business."
Business
"People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it."
People
"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."
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"I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?"
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