Quotes from Hugh Downs

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Life begins when you do.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking.

Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.