Don Hewitt Quotes (9 Quotes)

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

I plan to die at my desk.

I have a built-in bias against reporters who have axes to grind. I think there are reporters that allow their own bias to encroach on their journalism, and that's a crime against journalism.

He had a knack for getting things out of people that others never got out of them niches and hidden moments that they never shared with anyone. But they did with Mike.

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

The businessman only wants two things said about his companywhat he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.