A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

Now, as an adult, I appreciate those memories. Mom taught me the importance of compassion for your waitress, your crossing guard, your mailman.

I don't think God's through with me. I really believe he thinks there's still some good things I can do.

I try not to question the good things.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

No day is alike, nor should it be.

What we need is not so much personal development, as personal replacement: What we need is not so much personal development, but personal substitution.

When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

The military is already sexually integrated.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.

I have a husband who adores me.

We're all going to die.

I come out of real life.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

Maybe we all change over time.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.