Sam Donaldson Quotes

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• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got…
• So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions…
• The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.
• My personal opinion is that guns kill people.
• Let's face it many on the political right believe this President ought not to be there. They oppose him not for his policies and political…
• In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.
• If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could…
• Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
• The President's very shrewd
• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage…
• If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or…
• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling…
• It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
• And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will…
• But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd…
• I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
• As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as…
• And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me…
• News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
• There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

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