Sam Donaldson Quotes

But In 1941, On December 8th, After The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor, My Mother Bought A Radio And We Listened To The War News. We'd Not Had A Radio Up To That Time. I Was Born In 1934, So I Was Seven Years Of Age.

You Really Get The Most Out Of Sweet Corn If You Pick The Corn Off The Stalk And Rush It To A Pot Of Boiling Water. The Longer You Wait, The More Sugar You Lose. But If You Get It In The First Half Hour, That Is The Sweetest Corn Ever.

And From A Military School Which Taught Me That To Fit Into Society, You Can't Just Do Anything You Damn Well Please Because It Will Suit You. And That It's Much Better To Be With The Winners Than It Is With The Losers.

The President's Very Shrewd

Well, I Was Born In El Paso, Texas, It Was In The Nearest Hospital To The Family Farm.

As I Went To College, I Went Into Radio And Television. Now I Suppose Most People Think That's One Step Ahead Of Basket Weaving As A Major In College, But It Was Part Of The Journalism Department.

News Conferences Are The Only Chance The American Public Has To See Ronald Reagan Use His Mind.

I Was A Typical Farm Boy. I Liked The Farm. I Enjoyed The Things That You Do On A Farm, Go Down To The Drainage Ditch And Fish, And Look At The Crawfish And Pick A Little Cotton.

I Didn't Come East Of The Mississippi For The First Time In My Life Until I Was 26 Years Of Age, But I Knew. I Read Magazines, I Listened To Radio, I Watched Television. I Knew There Was Something Out There, And I Wanted A Part Of It.

My Mother Gave Me A Push. If I Hadn't Had Her, Maybe I Wouldn't Have Had The Push. If I Hadn't Gone To Military School, Maybe I Wouldn't Have Decided To Get With The Program. Maybe I'd Be Running A Bulldozer, Rather Than Going On And Doing Something More.

My Mother Did All She Could To Control Me, But At Age 14 She Sent Me To A Military School.

The Press . . . Traditionally Sides With Authority And The Establishment.