Quotes by Bob Edwards

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

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

"Good things just keep happening."

"With radio, the listener absorbs everything."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."