A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.

Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.