So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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
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
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
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.
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
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,…
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
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.
My personal opinion is that guns kill people. - Sam Donaldson
My personal opinion is that guns kill people.
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
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…
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
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.
In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake. - Sam Donaldson
In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.
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
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 …
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