Robert MacNeil

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

— Robert MacNeil

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

— Robert MacNeil

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important,…

— Robert MacNeil

I think one of the lessons we learn in life - and it's an old lesson, but each of us has to…

— Robert MacNeil

“If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage…

— Robert MacNeil

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words,…

— Robert MacNeil

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there,…

— Robert MacNeil

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my…

— Robert MacNeil

“He always wrote on the flyleaf of each new book the date and where he was, so I can follow him: reading…

— Robert MacNeil

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

— Robert MacNeil

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

— Robert MacNeil

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

— Robert MacNeil

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think…

— Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested…

— Robert MacNeil

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest…

— Robert MacNeil

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

— Robert MacNeil

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

— Robert MacNeil

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

— Robert MacNeil

From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she…

— Robert MacNeil

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

— Robert MacNeil

I never wanted to be a pundit.

— Robert MacNeil

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a…

— Robert MacNeil

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

— Robert MacNeil