Bill Kurtis Quotes

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.