Words matter. These are the best Margaret Brennan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In college, I was in the debating society – this total nerd.
Growing up I was a competitive Irish step dancer.
If you’re just inflaming your electorate, are you making anything better?
On ‘Face The Nation,’ we can have extended conversations with the president and senators and you need more than just a three minute segment.
Fundamentally, the office of the presidency and its very first responsibility is to protect us as Americans and tell us how that commander in chief is going to execute on it.
No one really speaks for the president other than the president.
You just need to constantly stay flexible, re-adjust, and figure out how you get done when you need to get done in the changing environment that you’re in.
My husband and I do love a really great red wine.
I’m vegetarian and my husband is not, so the one kind of commonality in our palate is that we both love spicy food.
As a journalist, I fundamentally believe that keeping the public informed is an essential part of democracy.
CNBC really did dominate. Could I have stayed there and continued doing what I was doing? Yes. I had been there for seven years and I was looking for an opportunity to help me grow in immediate terms.
I’ve noticed something happens when you take the masters of the universe outside of their home turf. They breathe.
Traveling with my husband is great as he is a sponge for new languages and tries to learn them on our trips.
I grew up at NBC and started there right out of college. I learned producing and booking. I was on MSNBC, ‘Today’ and ‘Nightly.’ I knew everyone from every level of the company. That was a comfort level. I had a personal relationship with a lot of the editorial leadership there. It wasn’t easy to leave.
The responsibility and the blessing in many ways of a Sunday show is being able to step back and give context.
When I left Sacred Heart, I definitely had the conviction of my own opinions in terms of not thinking twice to ask a question. That was key to giving me the confidence to think analytically and voice opinions and put myself out there.
I covered financial news and Wall Street for a decade.
Face the Nation’ is a brand, a mantle, and it’s a responsibility to continue to uphold, and to protect. My job is to maintain the brand, grow the brand, and along with our executive producer Mary Hager, help bring the brand along without in any way devaluing the trust that people have bestowed on us over the years.
I think information lands in a different way, depending on who the conduit for that information is, who the interviewer is.
I would love a podcast.
A lot of the traveling that I have done is for work. I’ve been to spots in Afghanistan and Iraq that are lovely, too, but I wouldn’t put those on travel itineraries.
It’s so easy to get into the hot take on Twitter, and to be able to do it in a way that gives the proper level of context and respect.
Most Americans travel through their TVs, not with their passports.
Davos is about connecting the dots. It is a networking event and I mean that with the very best intention.
As a mom, I also know that many of the stories that I cover may impact our son’s life in some form or another.
I think about some of those parents and friends of mine who have to turn their kitchen tables into home offices and school rooms and juggle that, trying to teach their kids. That’s pretty hard.
Any place can be romantic if you’re there with the right person. Being able to travel well with a partner is a great read into whether you can make it as a couple.
There is a place for the hot take. There is a place for the tweet.
I do believe there’s a hunger in this country to have a civil conversation and to listen to each other again and that’s what we try to do. That’s what I try to do.
When you cover someone day in and day out, you start observing their habits or how and when they respond well.
There’s really no substitute for being able to sit across from someone, have eye contact, see and read their body language, hear the inflection in their voice in a real way.
If it’s Sunday, I’m up at 5 A.M., in the car by 5:30, and doing television hits by 7:45.
Well I started out as a dancer, so I was used to this performing – performance arts. Started out getting used to being on stage. As I got a lot older that became public speaking or debate.
