Diane Sawyer Quotes - Page 2

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.

Great questions make great reporting.

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code for something else. It's code for taking a different position about gays in America, an exclusionary position, a code about abortion, code about imposing Christianity over other faiths.

You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story.

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.

I read this morning that he's [Saddam Hussein] also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he's been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years.

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.