Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That Amer…

- Robert Macneil

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

- Robert Macneil

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever w…

- Robert Macneil

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

- Robert Macneil

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will…

- Robert Macneil

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

- Robert Macneil

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothe…

- Robert Macneil

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was ha…

- Robert Macneil

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

- Robert Macneil