So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
Ed Bradley

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
Ed Bradley

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
Ed Bradley

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
Ed Bradley

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
Ed Bradley

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.
Ed Bradley

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
Ed Bradley