Phil Donahue
Phil Donahue
Phillip John "Phil" Donahueis an American media personality, writer, and film producer best known as the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, also known as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation. The show had a 29-year run on national television in America that began in Dayton, Ohio, and ended in New York City in 1996...
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth21 December 1935
CityCleveland, OH
believe people i-believe
I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.
peace brave pacifist
I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.
presidential democracy debate
The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.
diversity people waiting
There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion... THEIR religion.
earthquakes doctors honor
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
country democracy inability
The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.
thinking ideas creating
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
people want bonus
The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.
president vices shaving
In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
pits charity dollars
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
memories radio youth
The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.
men quiet wonder
Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?
religious cousin moving
Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?
target television worthy
Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?