Phil Donahue Quotes

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Women are smarter than men because they listen.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

Will you remember me when I'm gone?

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

There is no democracy without dissent.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.