Quotes by Robert MacNeil

“Parents can plant magic in a childs mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.”

“It was a way to do something that seemed to be needed journalistically and yet was different from what the commercial network news (programs) were doing,”

“Given the dozens of channels now that are doing something called news, from the serious to the comic, this is the one that has stayed absolutely gimmick-free and, therefore, its uniqueness is more apparent now, I think, than it was when we started 30 years ago,”

“[Television] has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.”

Change is legitimate and inevitable for our language is a mighty river picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there but growing ever wider and richer.