Robert MacNeil

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

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.

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

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.