Phil Donahue Quotes

[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors? ... Why shouldn't executions be public?

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

Its like threading a needle while walking on a water bed.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to ...

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

Women are smarter than men because they listen.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

There is no democracy without dissent.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

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.