Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.
– Sam Donaldson
News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
– Sam Donaldson
The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
– Sam Donaldson
I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
– Sam Donaldson
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
– Sam Donaldson
And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
– Sam Donaldson
And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.