Bob Edwards Journalist Quotations

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

I was 3 in 1950. And I loved the radio.

These voices came out of the box, as well as music and news and drama. You still had the soap operas on the radio in those days.

They want to give me a program, so I can continue to host and be heard every day instead of occasionally, as I would have been at NPR.

For one thing, you can get old, fat, bald and nobody knows and nobody cares. So there's great longevity in radio, more security there.