I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion. Robert MacNeil Read Quote
Parents can plant magic in a child’s mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. Robert MacNeil Read Quote
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons. Robert MacNeil Read Quote
Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998. Robert MacNeil Read Quote
We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we’ll go back there this summer. Robert MacNeil Read Quote
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. Robert MacNeil Read Quote
Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America’s closest friends. That America can’t be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is? Robert MacNeil Read Quote
Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world. Robert MacNeil Read Quote
