47 Quotes by Ed Bradley

"But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun."

"I did anything that would get me on the air."

"I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun."

"I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio."

"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris."

"That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into."

"I think, in some ways, Michael Jackson is out of touch with reality, and I don't think he has people around him who can say, Michael, can't do this. Michael, you can't do that. Michael, you can't say this. You know, I think he has been so big for so long that he can do whatever he wants to do."

"The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month."

"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."

"As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia."