Phil Donahue

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.