Words matter. These are the best David Muir Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Not a day goes by when we’re not grateful to see that viewers seem to be responding.
I need to ask the questions the people at home want answered.
Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that’s something I can achieve.
Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news… I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too.
If any event teaches you how to perform on no sleep, it’s a hurricane.
I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, ‘What do I need to do to be you one day?’
I still like the physicality of papers.
I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, ‘Help me,’ and wanting to slide down in the seat of my car because it felt like I was invading their suffering. But I also know that our being there gave them a voice.
At 25, I found myself anchoring coverage of President Clinton’s impeachment trial from Capitol Hill for WTVH-TV in my hometown of Syracuse, New York. I then covered Hillary Clinton’s first Senate run.
There’s no such thing as alternative facts.
We have to find a way to let everyone know when they’re watching that we hear them, that we’re asking their questions on all ends of the spectrum.
Our job every single night is to call out hypocrisy on both sides to make sure we’re holding Republicans accountable and Democrats accountable, that we’re holding the president accountable for promises made.
I do feel if we underestimate the viewer, it’s at our own peril.
If you go to certain cable news shows, you’re generally going to hear the viewpoints that you already have reported back to you. I think there’s no harm in that.
A huge part of my life is my job, and that’s the highest compliment you can pay to any job.
I think that with our ‘Made in America’ segments, where we go out to these factories all around the country, is essentially giving people a high-five and signal to them that we’re in this together.
When we get news 24 hours a day, I think people need the evening newscast more than ever.
I’m so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.
It’s a business driven by curiosity. If you don’t want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it’s the wrong business. But if you do… I’ve had an unbelievable front row seat.
I think Americans are a lot smarter than many give them credit for.
