Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is an American television journalist.
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.
The dream is not the destination but the journey.
If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
Someone said to me. . . 'A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don't you just make the request? Why don't you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?'
I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.
Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
I read this morning that he's [Saddam Hussein] also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he's been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years.
There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code for something else. It's code for taking a different position about gays in America, an exclusionary position, a code about abortion, code about imposing Christianity over other faiths.
One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.
I think no one knows my politics.