A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
A lot of people who worked for me went to other programs.
Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.
Along the way, like in the first week, I realized that during the commercials, these women were asking better questions than the host.
Anybody can be a journalist, even me. Very good idea, because it means you'll have a lot of people being journalists or getting news.
At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
Celebrities fall somewhere between Sinatra and the weekend TV weatherman.
December 25th has become guilt and obligation.
Dissent is a vehicle of entertainment, really. I admire those progressive people who get on Fox.
Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.
First the pressure was to put on Doris Roberts of Everyone Loves Raymond. Let's have some celebrities here.
God himself must be wincing at this pretense and this false piety. Somebody out there has to help bring us down from this.
I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.
I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
I didn't know what I was talking about, but I was on the air, and it was 1955. I was 19 years old.
I felt, let's go there, let's save the show by not getting uppity.
I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.
I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
I haven't necessarily been totally silent. I very much enjoy popping off about these issues.
I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.
I see all those Solomons out there, I can't wait to hear your wisdom.
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
I thought about the pain of our last married years. I hadn't been violent, I hadn't fooled around, I hadn't blown my paychecks.
I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.
I was once a member of the team, the gang, I once had a cable show in prime time. It seems like another life ago.
I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.
I was very, very naive for a veteran guy. I thought I was going to be a place where dissent could be heard.
If you have a lot of people getting news, somewhere in the collective middle will be found the truth.
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
In order to keep this feather in the air - and that's what it is - my people have to stay on fire creatively.
In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.
Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?
It's like threading a needle while walking on a water bed.
Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.
Michael Moore has never been on Meet the Press, Face the Nation. He was considered Time magazine Man of the Year.
Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.
Our program was doing reasonably well. We weren't Elvis, but the numbers of our program did not warrant our departure, our dismissal.
People were screaming and yelling, and here comes Donahue with one talking head and a group of women sitting on folding chairs.
Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.
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.
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Television is controlled by the Gatekeepers.
Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?
The beauty of syndication is, if we lost Peoria, we still had Indianapolis.
The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.
The syndicated model is more honest, more democratic, and allows for greater dissent and controversy.
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.
They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
We did a week of shows from almost every modestly large city in this nation.
We had two cameras. It was live. And celebrities were not on call for us.
We put Jane Fonda on very early. And Bob Evans, the farm sausage guy.
We put the cameras that used to be in front of the audience in back and allowed them to stand up.
We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.
We were very nervous about how long we would last because we were visually boring, so we had to survive on issues.
We're in the middle of some very choppy waters here, and we wanted everybody to grab an oar.
When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.
When my kids pleased me, I never told them so.
When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?
With minimal effort, a celebrity could go for weeks without picking up a check, and some do.
With the end of local live programming on Channel 2 in Dayton came the end of an era.
Phil Donahue married Marge Cooney on February 1 1958. They divorced in 1975. They had five children together.
Phil graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.B.A. in 1957.
Phil hosted the first daytime talk show entitled The Phil Donahue Show.
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