Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.
Phil Donahue

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
Phil Donahue

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
Phil Donahue

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.
Phil Donahue

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.
Phil Donahue

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
Phil Donahue

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Phil Donahue

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?
Phil Donahue

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
Phil Donahue

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.
Phil Donahue

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.
Phil Donahue

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
Phil Donahue

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.
Phil Donahue

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.
Phil Donahue

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?
Phil Donahue