Robert MacNeil Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 never wanted to be a pundit.”

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