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

- Phil Donahue

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

- Phil Donahue

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

- Phil Donahue

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

- Phil Donahue

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

- Phil Donahue

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

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

- Phil Donahue

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

- 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

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

- Phil Donahue

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

- Phil Donahue

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

- Phil Donahue

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

- Phil Donahue

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

- Phil Donahue

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

- Phil Donahue

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

- Phil Donahue

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

- Phil Donahue

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

- Phil Donahue

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

- Phil Donahue

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

- Phil Donahue