Bob Woodruff Quotations

We started out with a package, ... Now we're down to 25 percent of our employees participating in that package. I just cannot get comfortable with 25 percent of the employees helping us with our budget problems. I like a package where everyone can contribute.

When you walk down that corridor, you see people with a lot of fear in their eyes.

My entire focus is on my family and my recovery and getting back to the job I love. Invite me back next year. I'd love to raise a glass with you all to life.

People will be able to get on their computer while they are still at work and get a good sense of what will be on broadcast that night or what ABC is working on that day.

People want to know how the sausage is being made. I'm not sure what's going to work and what's not going to work, but the fact is we're committed to trying new things.

One of the most amazing things was when we went into the convention center on Thursday,

He had forgotten our procedure for establishing the budget for the insurance fund, ... When we sit down with Blue Cross and Blue Shield, they give us a top and bottom range to use.

When they moved from being a chamber to RBA, I think it confused everybody.

I think we suffered a little bit in New Orleans from the 'boy who cries wolf' syndrome,

I think back to the tsunami, and I remember being so astonished, 2 1/2 weeks after it hit, to be standing in the capital of Indonesia and see a dead body on the ground. I never thought, never in a million years, that I would find something like that in the United States. But 10 days afterward in New Orleans, one of the great cities in America, and there were dead bodies on the ground. It's tough to have that happen in your own country.

I think the viewers demand it in many ways. The model of the presenter, I think, is gone. I think the model now is anchor-reporter, and I think you're going to see a lot more of that. As a viewer, I like to see that.

When I realized there was a job that existed in this world where I could be in the middle of huge world events and actually get paid for it, it was an epiphany for me.

We can't afford to wait that long to see if the contract is right or wrong.

When you land at 2:30 in the morning, certain ministries aren't awake.

When we walked in we were given a standing ovation, my crew and me.

What people have always valued (are) anchors who have been out there. I've never dug up a story on a pedestal.

Today, Mr. Bennett told us his comments were meant as hypothetical. He says that he was really trying to demonstrate the limitation of one argument by showing the absurdity of another.

What's good for the viewers is good for us personally. One of the fears that Peter expressed to me over the years was that once you get to this chair, once you get to this position, you're not able to go out to the big stories and the things you've always loved your whole life as a journalist to do.

I've never actually dug up any news story on a pedestal before. I don't understand the value of being on a pedestal.

After I explained that, he recognized his statements don't apply,

It's really good for the reporters in the field, too, to know that when they do all this work and sometimes risk their lives to do it, there's a place that an audience can find it.

It's nice to be feeling more like myself again.

It wasn't a decision that we made based on anything other than the fact that we didn't have a better idea (for economic development efforts) and we figured with new people coming in it would have been a good thing for them to look at,

I mean really, completely honestly, this is a different world just in terms of pure numbers. There weren't that many to watch back then in those days, and (anchormen) were able to gain huge notoriety very quickly. We completely understand that that's not the world that we live in right now. There are a lot of things to be seen.

I physically haven't seen Elizabeth Vargas in a while, and it's going to be 3-1/2 weeks before I see her in person.

I am moving on to outpatient treatment and I can't tell you what a blessing it is. Though I know there is still a long road ahead, it's nice to be feeling more like myself again -- laughing with family, reading bedtime stories and reminding my kids to do their homework.

All that we can do is to do what we've always done, and fortunately I love doing this.