Elizabeth Vargas Quotations

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'

They would tell you that they were just doing their soldierly duty. But in doing so they remind us again what a remarkable group of people can accomplish under the greatest of pressure and we are grateful.

Despite massive geographical distances, we were really bonding and I feel jelling into a great team.

It provides an opportunity for viewers to see a more in-depth coverage of the story and a more personal coverage of the story. It makes us better anchors to be out in the field reporting on a regular basis.

It will change the way I report that story because of what I've seen there. They don't hate all Americans. I think they would like American soldiers to go home, but they want to live in safety. To think that we could just pull out and leave people in those living conditions It's just appalling.

This was about as unplanned as it gets.

This is not something you just sort of go, oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on--you don't just move on.

We had all sorts of great plans. We're trying to figure out now how to persevere and to continue to put on the very best show we can, not only because we all want to, because we all know that's what Bob would want. Selfishly, I want Bob to return to a strong show that we can all be proud of and that is competitive.

This is a staff that has been tested already. I don't think anybody can believe we're asking this amazing group of people to endure this kind of experience again.