Paul Slavin Quotations

Security is of great concern to us. It's something we are assessing daily. The larger your footprint, the more dangerous it is.

Now, to go on an embed, they would have to have my approval. I have never encountered anything like Iraq before, as far as reporting difficulty.

If something is working, generally speaking, we don't interfere with it. As long as Terry was interested, that was easy.

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

We are committed to the West Coast edition of 'World News Tonight,' but we are having trouble at this point fulfilling it as fully as we would have wished or as fully as we had expected.

We're not shying away from it. I just don't think we've seen that much.

We're not in a tremendous hurry. We have such depth here that we can keep this regime going for some time while we figure out what the best thing to do is.

We are early enough to get the people in the area that we need to get.

The whole thing has just been bad and difficult on the organization. Some people wonder what kind of cloud we're living under.

This is a perfect opportunity to assess, reassess, explore. We may end up putting on the exact same program that we're putting on now, but we will certainly take this as an opportunity to look at a lot of different techniques or technologies or editorial ways of doing the evening news.

The morning show is a family. And anything you do to disrupt that family can have consequences. So it's complicated, sure. Any decision we make is going to have a far-reaching impact on the organization.

You try not to become part of the story, but you're a human being first, a journalist second.

In any situation you're a human first and then a journalist. You can't stand by when people are suffering and not do something about it.

You can't talk enough. You can't communicate enough. It makes people feel that Peter may be gone and Bob may be hurt, but there are managers who are still steering the ship. They want to know that the organization is not in free-fall.