Phil Donahue
Phil Donahue
Phillip John "Phil" Donahueis an American media personality, writer, and film producer best known as the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, also known as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation. The show had a 29-year run on national television in America that began in Dayton, Ohio, and ended in New York City in 1996...
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth21 December 1935
CityCleveland, OH
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This is not what the founders intended. We want a real campaign.
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How many more men and women are you going to send to have their arms and legs blown off so that you can be tough and point at people in a kind of cowardly way?
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... You can't intimidate me. I'm not somebody you can come and just spew all your (inaudible...
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When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?
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There is no democracy without dissent.
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The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
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To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
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Its like threading a needle while walking on a water bed.
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Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
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I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.
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Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?
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[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?
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There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion... THEIR religion.
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I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.