Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil
Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, also known as Robin MacNeil, is a Canadian American novelist, and former television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth19 January 1931
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
pundits wanted
I never wanted to be a pundit.
thinking air opinion
I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
night television world
Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
america mind needs
Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?
retirement new-york thinking
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
uplifting children heart
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
fall heart thinking
I think one of the lessons we learn in life - and it's an old lesson, but each of us has to learn it, if he does, individually - and that is that, in human relations, particularly sexual relations and so on, there - there is - the person you might most trust and feel most comfortable and easy with isn't necessarily the person your heart is going to fall for.
spirit
Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.
rivers growing language
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.
manners certain diplomacy
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.