Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Edwards

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Bob Edwards.

Last updated on September 10, 2024.

Robert Alan "Bob" Edwards is an American broadcast journalist, a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He hosted both of National Public Radio's flagship news programs, the afternoon All Things Considered, and Morning Edition, where he was the first and longest serving host in the latter program's history. Starting in 2004, Edwards then was the host of The Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM Radio and Bob Edwards Weekend distributed by Public Radio International to more than 150 public radio stations. Those programs ended in September 2015. Edwards currently hosts a podcast for AARP.

American - Journalist | Born: May 16, 1947

Source: Wikipedia

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Bob Edwards

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

Bob Edwards

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

Bob Edwards

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Bob Edwards

Public radio has always been so powerless.

Bob Edwards

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

Bob Edwards

Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

Bob Edwards

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Bob Edwards

Good things just keep happening.

Bob Edwards

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

Bob Edwards

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

Bob Edwards

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Bob Edwards

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

Bob Edwards

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

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The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

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I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

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

Bob Edwards

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

Bob Edwards

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Bob Edwards

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

Bob Edwards

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

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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.

Bob Edwards

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

Bob Edwards

The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.

Bob Edwards

Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.

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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.

Bob Edwards

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

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In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

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That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

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I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

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Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

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Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

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One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

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The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

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If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?