27 Quotes by Bob Woodruff

I think back to the tsunami, and I remember being so astonished, 2 1/2 weeks after it hit, to be standing in the capital of Indonesia and see a dead body on the ground. I never thought, never in a million years, that I would find something like that in the United States. But 10 days afterward in New Orleans, one of the great cities in America, and there were dead bodies on the ground. It's tough to have that happen in your own country.

I think the viewers demand it in many ways. The model of the presenter, I think, is gone. I think the model now is anchor-reporter, and I think you're going to see a lot more of that. As a viewer, I like to see that.

When I realized there was a job that existed in this world where I could be in the middle of huge world events and actually get paid for it, it was an epiphany for me.

We can't afford to wait that long to see if the contract is right or wrong.

When you land at 2:30 in the morning, certain ministries aren't awake.

When we walked in we were given a standing ovation, my crew and me.

What people have always valued (are) anchors who have been out there. I've never dug up a story on a pedestal.

Today, Mr. Bennett told us his comments were meant as hypothetical. He says that he was really trying to demonstrate the limitation of one argument by showing the absurdity of another.

What's good for the viewers is good for us personally. One of the fears that Peter expressed to me over the years was that once you get to this chair, once you get to this position, you're not able to go out to the big stories and the things you've always loved your whole life as a journalist to do.