33 Quotes by Robert MacNeil

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

I have children in Denver, Boston and London, England; and my wife and I have been to see all of them; and they to us in New York.

Given the dozens of channels now that are doing something called news, from the serious to the comic, this is the one that has stayed absolutely gimmick-free and, therefore, its uniqueness is more apparent now, I think, than it was when we started 30 years ago,

We have determined to stay in New York City as our permanent home, because it seems to be the most interesting place in which to live as we get older.