David Muir

“I need to ask the questions the people at home want answered.”

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

“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.”

“There's no such thing as alternative facts.”

“I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.”

“I do feel if we underestimate the viewer, it's at our own peril.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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?'”

“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 the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.”

“I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want you to call people out on the facts when the facts are the facts.”

“If you go to certain cable news shows, you're generally going to hear the viewpoints that you already have reported back to you. I think there's no harm in that.”

“I think I was always a curious kid.”

“I think the sensibilities of having grown up in Upstate New York and the concerns, the fears, the hopes of the people there are reflected all over the country.”

“Not a day goes by when we're not grateful to see that viewers seem to be responding.”

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

“We have to find a way to let everyone know when they're watching that we hear them, that we're asking their questions on all ends of the spectrum.”