Bob Woodruff Quotes (14 Quotes)

It wasn't a decision that we made based on anything other than the fact that we didn't have a better idea (for economic development efforts) and we figured with new people coming in it would have been a good thing for them to look at,

We can't afford to wait that long to see if the contract is right or wrong.

He had forgotten our procedure for establishing the budget for the insurance fund, ... When we sit down with Blue Cross and Blue Shield, they give us a top and bottom range to use.

I've never actually dug up any news story on a pedestal before. I don't understand the value of being on a pedestal.

When you land at 230 in the morning, certain ministries aren't awake.

When you walk down that corridor, you see people with a lot of fear in their eyes.

It's one of the most important countries in the world right now. It's a regional powerhouse. It's a country we need to understand. It's big, it's powerful, it's wealthy, and it's right next to Iraq.

It's really good for the reporters in the field, too, to know that when they do all this work and sometimes risk their lives to do it, there's a place that an audience can find it.

I mean really, completely honestly, this is a different world just in terms of pure numbers. There weren't that many to watch back then in those days, and (anchormen) were able to gain huge notoriety very quickly. We completely understand that that's not the world that we live in right now. There are a lot of things to be seen.

When I realized there was a job that existed in this world where I could be in the middle of huge world events and actually get paid for it, it was an epiphany for me.

People will be able to get on their computer while they are still at work and get a good sense of what will be on broadcast that night or what ABC is working on that day.

I think the viewers demand it in many ways. The model of the presenter, I think, is gone. I think the model now is anchor-reporter, and I think you're going to see a lot more of that. As a viewer, I like to see that.

What's good for the viewers is good for us personally. One of the fears that Peter expressed to me over the years was that once you get to this chair, once you get to this position, you're not able to go out to the big stories and the things you've always loved your whole life as a journalist to do.

I think back to the tsunami, and I remember being so astonished, 2 12 weeks after it hit, to be standing in the capital of Indonesia and see a dead body on the ground. I never thought, never in a million years, that I would find something like that in the United States. But 10 days afterward in New Orleans, one of the great cities in America, and there were dead bodies on the ground. It's tough to have that happen in your own country.