Donahue Quotes & Sayings

Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother and nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down. — Phil Donahue

I get sidetracked very easily. — Heather Donahue

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work. — Phil Donahue

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all. — Phil Donahue

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform. — Phil Donahue

Will you remember me when I'm gone? — Phil Donahue

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently. — Heather Donahue

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever. — Phil Donahue

I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves. — Heather Donahue

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew. — Phil Donahue

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard. — Phil Donahue

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi. — Phil Donahue

We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us. — Phil Donahue

The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor. — Thomas R. Donahue

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement. — Heather Donahue

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness. — Heather Donahue

[On husband Phil Donahue:] The man does not know the meaning of the word tidy. He asked me one day, 'Where are my shoes?' So I asked him, 'Where are my shoes?' I don't know what it is about men. They think that women have radar attached to our uteruses. — Marlo Thomas

December 25th has become guilt and obligation. — Phil Donahue

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives. — Phil Donahue

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it. — Phil Donahue

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion. — Phil Donahue

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. — Heather Donahue

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas. — Phil Donahue

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me? — Phil Donahue

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself ... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag. — Cristina Saralegui

Women are smarter than men because they listen. — Phil Donahue

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again. — Heather Donahue

I was nervous about the meeting, not — James C. Donahue

You can really learn from Donahue. I didn't know you could be a woman in a man's body. You go out and you can't parallel park. — Roseanne Barr

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them. — Phil Donahue

-Would you wish us to invest it for you?
-No, I would like you to set up a trust for dumb animals.
-What kind of dumb animals do you have in mind, Miss Donahue?
-Oh, stray dogs. Rats. Birds.
-We could still invest it for you. Then the animals would get the income without touching the capital.
-No, I don't wish to invest it. I don't want them to get rich. They might become human. — Romain Gary

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that. — Phil Donahue

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive. — Phil Donahue

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover? — Phil Donahue

I never really got on my own case about my own acting. I know a lot of other people have, and probably very justifiably. But I don't worry about stuff like that too much. — Troy Donahue

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie. — Heather Donahue

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others. — Phil Donahue

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want. — Nora Ephron

The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus. — Phil Donahue

Yes, Ermintrude." I muster a smile. "Ermintrude the hamster." The spotlight finally moves off me, and Dix Donahue comes to the end of his speech, and I look up to see Luke giving me a little wink as he approaches through the crowd. "I'll get you a new hamster this Christmas, darling," he says over the sound of applause. "We'll fight the discrimination together. If you can be brave enough, so can I. — Sophie Kinsella

Do something pleasant for her when you get home. So, what are you working on? — Karen Donahue

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow. — Phil Donahue

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana. — Phil Donahue

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing. — Phil Donahue

Its like threading a needle while walking on a water bed. — Phil Donahue

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother. — Phil Donahue

When we trust, we reflect the character of God. — Bill Donahue

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable? — Phil Donahue

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press. — Dale E. Turner

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family. — Heather Donahue

If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to ... — Phil Donahue

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. — Phil Donahue

Therefore, and Donahue was loath to admit it, the only explanation for the position of Kennedy's exit wound was that the shot had not come from the right rear but from the left rear, from a second gunman located somewhere over the President's left shoulder. — Bonar Menninger

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony. — Phil Donahue

I'm not the beautiful one. — Heather Donahue

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. — Phil Donahue

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas. — Phil Donahue

There is no democracy without dissent. — Phil Donahue

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. — Phil Donahue

It's only awkward if you let it be. — Silvia Donahue

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. — Phil Donahue

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material. — Troy Donahue

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. — Phil Donahue

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them. — Phil Donahue

I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it. — Phil Donahue

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick ... and it's profitable. — Heather Donahue

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous. — Phil Donahue

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent. — Phil Donahue

Damn right. Now shut up, Donahue, and tell me that you'll spend the rest of your life with me."

Matt pronounced his next words very carefully:

"I do. — Marquesate

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed. — Phil Donahue

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? — Phil Donahue

I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck. — Heather Donahue

I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a seminar where we discuss film or theater and do improvisations. — Troy Donahue

I want to touch you." he confides.

"I've always dreamed of your touch, your hands on me," I say, daydreaming after his sensual kiss.

"Your dreams are about to become reality."


"Is it working? — S. Donahue

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar. — Phil Donahue

I used to be terrified of my own weakness; if acknowledged it, I thought I would be overwhelmed by it. But I am stronger and braver than that. I am not so easily broken. I am strong enough to realize that it is alright to be fragile, to be less than perfect. Staying connected to that vulnerability, ironically, gives me strength. — Hope Donahue

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption. — Phil Donahue

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave. — Phil Donahue

I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me. — Heather Donahue

Miss Child is never bashful with butter. — Phil Donahue

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things. — Heather Donahue

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real. — Troy Donahue

Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason ... not even as a member of the studio audience. — Eileen Davidson

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time. — Phil Donahue

I'm afraid to close my eyes, I'm afraid to open them — Heather Donahue

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs. — Phil Donahue

I'm trying to drink more water. — Heather Donahue

I don't know anyone else who hangs pictures of their office in their home. — Topher Donahue

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing. — Heather Donahue

[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors? ... Why shouldn't executions be public? — Phil Donahue

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock. — Phil Donahue

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history. — Phil Donahue