David Muir Quotes
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I think Americans are a lot smarter than many give them credit for.
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The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.
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Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news... I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too.
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There's no such thing as alternative facts.
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When we get news 24 hours a day, I think people need the evening newscast more than ever.
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I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.
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I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.
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There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.
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I need to ask the questions the people at home want answered.
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If you go to certain cable news shows, you're generally going to hear the viewpoints that you already have reported back to you. I think there's no harm in that.
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We have to find a way to let everyone know when they're watching that we hear them, that we're asking their questions on all ends of the spectrum.
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I still like the physicality of papers.
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I hope people know that when I'm sitting there, it's not some guy on a desk on a platform with sort of this voice-of-God approach.
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If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more.
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I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, 'Help me,' and wanting to slide down in the seat of my car because it felt like I was invading their suffering. But I also know that our being there gave them a voice.
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Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.
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I think the sensibilities of having grown up in Upstate New York and the concerns, the fears, the hopes of the people there are reflected all over the country.
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I can report from the field with a tiny camera and a laptop.
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I think I was always a curious kid.
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I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want you to call people out on the facts when the facts are the facts.
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It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it's the wrong business. But if you do... I've had an unbelievable front row seat.
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If any event teaches you how to perform on no sleep, it's a hurricane.
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When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.
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I do feel if we underestimate the viewer, it's at our own peril.