Quotes from David Muir

Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.

I still like the physicality of papers.

I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, 'Help me,' and wanting to slide down in the seat of my car because it felt like I was invading their suffering. But I also know that our being there gave them a voice.

Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news... I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too.

I hope people know that when I'm sitting there, it's not some guy on a desk on a platform with sort of this voice-of-God approach.

I often work seven days a week. I'm not looking for a pat on the back because I love what I do.

I think I was always a curious kid.

There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.

If any event teaches you how to perform on no sleep, it's a hurricane.

I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.

I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.

There's no such thing as alternative facts.

The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.

I can report from the field with a tiny camera and a laptop.

If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more.

A huge part of my life is my job, and that's the highest compliment you can pay to any job.

While anchoring at Boston's WCVB-TV, I reported on Mitt Romney's run for Massachusetts governor.

The reporting has always been what drives me.

I think that with our 'Made in America' segments, where we go out to these factories all around the country, is essentially giving people a high-five and signal to them that we're in this together.

I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, 'What do I need to do to be you one day?'

Our job every single night is to call out hypocrisy on both sides to make sure we're holding Republicans accountable and Democrats accountable, that we're holding the president accountable for promises made.

At 25, I found myself anchoring coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial from Capitol Hill for WTVH-TV in my hometown of Syracuse, New York. I then covered Hillary Clinton's first Senate run.

I think Americans are a lot smarter than many give them credit for.

It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it's the wrong business. But if you do... I've had an unbelievable front row seat.