Robert MacNeil

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

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.

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

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.