"In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter."

"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."

"When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up."

"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."

"I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later."

"I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth."

ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.

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

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.

I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get a hold of whoever I wanted to. What I learned is that you really have to get proactive and manage your case.

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

I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that.

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.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

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

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

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

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

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.

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

“The media are not reality; reality is reality.” 

“On the road, I learned that the media are not reality; reality is reality.” 

“Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.” 

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.