25 Quotes by Hugh Downs

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

To have a facility like this really adds a world-class potential (to the area). I'm sure I'll be out here to see some shows.

Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.