Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are proud to bring the Scripps National Spelling Bee to ABC for the first time in its storied, 79-year history. It's exciting for us as a network to bring this competition of some of America's brightest young minds to a broader audience.

Paul Tagliabue

We appreciate the leadership of ABC and ESPN in helping us turn this particular Monday night into far more than a primetime football doubleheader, making it part of the overall Gulf Coast relief effort. The New Orleans Saints know the importance of rising to help meet the Gulf Coast's extraordinary challenges, and we salute them, too.

We have no knowledge about the documents in possession of ABC News, nor the significance of those documents, but we do know what we have repeatedly told our employees since October 25 -- and that is in no uncertain terms that they are to preserve all documents and materials,

There is no procedure what so ever in the ABC law for a suspension of a license prior to a hearing.

We believe that, barring the unforeseen -- a significant downturn in the market -- the ABC network will likely be profitable in '05,

To most people, when they drive by, it will be the ABC Columbia building. You get extra recognition. It draws a little more attention to what you're doing.

As with last season, it will be a highly competitive year. CBS and ABC are the two probable combatants for the top spot for the first half of the season. But January will bring a new ratings wrinkle with 'American Idol' re-ascending for Fox.

Al Franken

A brief digression on whether that suspicious-looking mole is actually cancer. ... Take this simple test called the ABC test. 'A' is for age. What is your age? Is it over thirteen? If so, it's cancer. That's how the ABC test works.

ABC would not allow that, nor would it give permission for us to edit out the graphic language,

Jimmy Breslin

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12/20/86.

George Bodenheimer

ABC Sports has a very strong legacy and sports fans understand it.

ABC probably did as well or better than we expected. CBS and NBC were about what we expected would happen.

Ben Sherwood

ABC News will give millions of viewers an extraordinary, unprecedented look inside the Royal Palaces.

Steve Jones

ABC News Radio agrees with Bonneville that there's a need for an FM news product. We believe our research can help FM programmers increase audience and TSL and we are actively testing this new product now.

ABC News has the authority to go to news when it's something this important. We're very pleased we had this option where sports, in this case the Little League World Series, could move to ESPN and fans could see the conclusion.

ABC News has the authority to go to news when it's something this important, ... We're very pleased we had this option where sports, in this case the Little League World Series, could move to ESPN and fans could see the conclusion.

Jimmy Kimmel

ABC is on a roll. It seemed inevitable that they'd do something like this to screw it up.

ABC is going to want to keep us from going to the open marketplace, but we're going to be very interested in going there if ABC doesn't make a preemptive offer. We've never had the opportunity to test it on the open marketplace.

Richard Dawson

ABC has told me that a sponsor has complained about my making anti-Nixon jokes. I would just like to say that I believe Mr. Nixon did his best to destroy this country.

ABC has put itself on the map again with those new shows.

Sara Rue

ABC has been nothing but supportive and wonderful. I think their point is that people are sick of seeing women who are size two (NZ size 8) on television, and it's time we had someone who's a size eight (NZ size 16) carrying a show.

ABC had nothing to do with it. There was nothing that was heard in the stadium that required ABC to do anything.

ABC had me sign a $5 million non-disclosure agreement.

Pat Robertson

ABC Family strongly rejects the views expressed by Pat Robertson in the Aug. 22 telecast of the program.

Skyler Samuels

ABC Family is where the good stuff is at. I'm so excited to be a part of this network because they've really done a great job introducing shows that are heartfelt, exciting, and everything you'd want.

Scott Michael Foster

ABC Family is ready to get a new image for themselves, and I think 'Greek' really kind of started that change.

ABC Family has been a perfect home for this series. We're very proud of the show and appreciate the tremendous support we've received from the network.

Al wasn't comfortable with our vision. We reached a satisfactory resolution with Al. He did a fantastic job at ABC for 30 years, but once he said 'No,' we needed to move forward. We want to work with people who want to work with us.

A lot of people told me that the job of making ABC News competitive was so difficult and so long that it wasn't worth the trouble.

Al Michaels worked hard, did a fantastic job for ABC for 30 years. I respect that, and we appreciate that.

They serve it everywhere here. We all love it. They have it at McDonald's and sell it at 7-Elevens and the ABC stores. We grew up with Spam.

This is what I call the ABC defense: Anybody except Charles,

John Madden

It's a big deal, ... ABC and MNF are a big part of NFL history, and it's going to end with the Super Bowl (on ABC). You can't say you're not looking forward to it.