If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

- Sam Donaldson

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

- Sam Donaldson

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes,…

- Sam Donaldson

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news bu…

- Sam Donaldson

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

- Sam Donaldson

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

- Sam Donaldson

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

- Sam Donaldson

In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

- Sam Donaldson

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but …

- Sam Donaldson