Top 15 Quotes by Robert MacNeil

I never wanted to be a pundit.

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

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

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

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.

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

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

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

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.