33 Quotes by Robert MacNeil

Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

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

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

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.